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Jāzeps Vītols

1863 - 1948

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Jāzeps Vītols (German: Joseph Wihtol; 26 July 1863 – 24 April 1948) was a Latvian composer, pedagogue and music critic. He is considered one of the fathers of Latvian classical music. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jāzeps Vītols is the 1,016th most popular composer (up from 1,047th in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 121st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Latvian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Jāzeps Vītols ranks 1,016 out of 1,451. Before him are Francesco Araja, Vagn Holmboe, Erkki Aaltonen, Mikael Tariverdiev, Knut Nystedt, and Jean Mouton. After him are Friedrich Kiel, Kenji Kawai, Cristóbal Halffter, Sándor Végh, Alberto Franchetti, and Gustav Lange.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Jāzeps Vītols ranks 112. Before him are Ashraf Ali Thanwi, Enrique Fernández Arbós, Ljubomir Davidović, Richard F. Outcault, Lawrence Lambe, and Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones. After him are Aleksey Krylov, Alfred Lacroix, Mary Whiton Calkins, Hugo Winckler, Blanche Bingley, and Aliagha Shikhlinski. Among people deceased in 1948, Jāzeps Vītols ranks 136. Before him are José Vianna da Motta, Nikolai Podvoisky, Sigrid Hjertén, Eugen Slutsky, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, and Marcel Brillouin. After him are Alfred Kerr, Alfred Lacroix, Emmy Hennings, May Whitty, Elsa Brändström, and Ernst Herzfeld.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Jāzeps Vītols ranks 119 out of 323. Before him are Andris Bērziņš (1951), Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg (1802), Heinz Christian Pander (1794), Elīna Garanča (1976), Johann Gerhard König (1728), and Grzegorz Fitelberg (1879). After him are Alfrēds Rubiks (1935), Matvei Gedenshtrom (1780), Jānis Daliņš (1904), Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen (1913), Anna Brigadere (1861), and Anatoly Solovyev (1948).

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Among COMPOSERS In Latvia

Among composers born in Latvia, Jāzeps Vītols ranks 4. Before him are Pēteris Vasks (1946), Raimonds Pauls (1936), and Balys Dvarionas (1904). After him are Jānis Ivanovs (1906), Alfrēds Kalniņš (1879), Emīls Dārziņš (1875), and Ēriks Ešenvalds (1977).

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