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MEDIŅŠ, Jānis

Jānis Mediņš, photographed in 1920

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Born in Riga, Oct 9, 1890
Died in Stockholm, March 4, 1966

  • Mediņš worked as an opera and orchestral conductor and conservatory professor in Latvia until 1944, when he fled the Soviet invasion, eventually settling in Stockholm.
  • Mediņš wrote some of the first operas in Latvian, and composed the first Latvian ballet.
  • His brother Jāzeps Mediņš was also a significant composer and conductor.1

Sources

  1. Jēkabs, Vītoliņš, “Mediņš, Jānis,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 14, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000018250.

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