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- Vasks
- Wind Quintet No. 2
- Summer Dances
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Pēteris Vasks (born April 16, 1946) is a Latvian composer. Vasks was born in Aizpute, Latvia, to a family of a Baptist pastor. He trained as a double-bass player, and played in several Latvian orchestras before entering the State Conservatory in Vilnius in the neighboring Lithuania to study composition, as he was prevented from doing this in Latvia due to Soviet repressive policy toward Baptists. He started to become known outside Latvia in the 1990s. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/P%C4%93t
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- 1946-04-16
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1946 births20th-century Latvian classical composers20th-century male composers21st-century classical composers21st-century Latvian male musiciansBLP articles lacking sources from February 2010Herder Prize recipientsLatvian composersLatvian male classical composersLithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre alumniLiving peopleMembers of the Royal Swedish Academy of MusicPeople from AizputePostminimalist composersRecipients of the Order of the White Star, 3rd Class