Marģeris Zariņš

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Marģeris Zariņš ( Russian Маргер Оттович Заринь, Маргерис Зариньш ; born May 24, 1910 in Jaunpiebalga ; † February 27, 1993 in Riga ) was a Latvian composer and writer .

Zariņš studied from 1929 to 1933 at the Riga Conservatory with Jāzeps Vītols . He worked there as a conductor and was music director at the Daile Theater in Riga from 1940 to 1950 . Since the 1960s and 1970s, he increasingly turned to the literary production of short stories and novels.

In addition to five operas , he composed musical comedies, concerts such as Greek Vases ( Grieķu vāzes ) for piano and orchestra, oratorios , choral works, songs , plays and film scores. His works show influences from neoclassicism and often have satirical traits.

Operas

  • Uz jauno krastu (1955)
  • Zaļās dzirnavas (1957)
  • Nabagu opera (1964)
  • Svētā Maurīcija brīnumdarbi (1964)
  • Opera uz laukuma (1969/70)

Literary works

  • The purple organ of the sunset , short stories, 1970
  • Falscher Faust or The corrected and completed cookbook , novel, 1973
  • The Lexicon of Optimistic Life , Autobiography, 1974/86
  • Mysteries and Happenings , Tales, 1975
  • Literary autobiography , 1980
  • Stories about Merkel , 1980
  • The calendar of the conductor Kociņš , 1982
  • ... and the rye field smoked in the fog , 1985
  • The impetuous thirty-three , 1988

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Most of the sources cite February 27th as the date of death (MGG, New Grove, Bibliothèque Nationale de France and Latvian Music Information Center). February 17th and January 27th are also mentioned here and there.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Arnold Klotiņš:  Zariņš, margers. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  2. ↑ a b Baiba Jaunslaviete:  Zariņš, Marģeris. In: MGG Online (subscription required).
  3. ↑ Biography and catalog raisonné on Music in Latvia (Latvian / English)
personal data
SURNAME Zariņš, Marģeris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zarins, Margeris; Tsarina, Marger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian composer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Jaunpiebalga
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1993
Place of death Riga