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- Works
- 3
Top works
- Vasks
- Wind Quintet No. 2
- Summer Dances
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Aizpute, Latvia
Pēteris Vasks is a Latvian composer.
Known for
- Pēteris Vasks at 80 - Concert from Aizpute, Latvia2026
- The Composer and His Heaven – Peteris Vasks — Self2023
- Musica Serena. Komponists Pēteris Vasks — Self2016
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- 28,245
- Total plays
- 178,980
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contemporary classicallatvianClassicalcomposerbaltic
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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Aizpute
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
- Languages spoken
- Latvian
- Genre
- symphony
- Official website
- www.music.lv/Composers/Vasks
- Image
- Vasks11.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1946-04-16
- member of
- Royal Swedish Academy of Music
- P12674
- 2800 Ovidius
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