Jēkabs Mediņš

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Jēkabs Mediņš (born March 10, 1885 in Riga ; † November 27, 1971 there ) was a Latvian composer.

Life

Jēkabs Mediņš studied at the Riga Music Institute, and from 1910 at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. From 1921 to 1940 he headed the Conservatory in Jelgava and taught from 1944 at the Conservatory of Riga. From 1948 to 1950 he was its director.

Jēkabs Mediņš composed two orchestral suites and other works for orchestra and string orchestra, eleven instrumental concerts, chamber music, piano and organ works, cantatas, choral works, songs and more than two hundred folk song arrangements.

His two brothers Jāzeps Mediņš (1877–1947) and Jānis Mediņš (1890–1966) were also well-known Latvian composers.

literature

  • Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea world of music. The composers . Vol. 3: Hauff - Menalt . Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin and Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-549-07833-1 , p. 603.

Footnotes

  1. a b Mediņš, Jēkabs . In: Klaus Beckmann : Repertory organ music. Composers - Works - Editions, 1150–2000 . Vol. 1: Organ solo . Schott, Mainz, 3rd, revised and expanded edition 2001, ISBN 3-7957-0500-2 , pp. 730-731.
  2. ^ Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea world of music. The composers . Vol. 3: Hauff - Menalt . Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin and Frankfurt am Main 1989, p. 603.