Baltā ainava (White Scenery)

Composer: VASKS, Pēteris
  • Baltā ainava (White Scenery) is one of four piano pieces evoking a seasonal landscape. Vasks didn’t intend to write a cycle of seasonal works when he wrote the first of the group, Baltā ainava, in 1980.
    • The other works are:
      • Rudens mūzika (Autumn Music), composed in 1981
      • Pavasara mūzika (Spring Music), composed in 1995
      • Zaļā ainava (Green Landscape – Summer), composed in 2008
  •  Vasks wrote the following about Baltā ainava:
    • “In Baltā ainava everything is white. A new year begins. It is a quiet meditation, a new beginning, with only two themes.”
  • As a composer, Vasks has noted that, “I am deeply rooted in nature, in the nature of the North. It influences all of my music.”1

Sources

  1. Christoph Schlüren, “Preface: Baltā ainava,” Schott Music Group, accessed January 12, 2026, https://www.schott-music.com/en/balta-ainava-noc38599.html.

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