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Alfrēds Kalniņš

1879 - 1951

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Alfrēds Bruno Jānis Kalniņš (23 August 1879, in Cēsis, Governorate of Livonia – 23 December 1951, in Riga, Latvian SSR) was a Latvian composer, organist, pedagogue, music critic and conductor; the founder of national Latvian opera. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfrēds Kalniņš has received more than 23,155 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 18 in 2019). Alfrēds Kalniņš is the 1,088th most popular composer (down from 996th in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 110th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Latvian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alfrēds Kalniņš ranks 1,088 out of 1,216Before him are Clint Mansell, Halfdan Kjerulf, Alexander Moyzes, Peter Arnold Heise, Cristóbal Halffter, and Ludwig Abeille. After him are Michel Colombier, Kōsaku Yamada, Klaus Badelt, Italo Montemezzi, Heinrich Schenker, and Peter H. Gilmore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Alfrēds Kalniņš ranks 150Before him are Rafael Erich, Marion Jones Farquhar, Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov, Agnes Miegel, Beals Wright, and Grzegorz Fitelberg. After him are Sydney Greenstreet, Laura Hope Crews, Urban Gad, Aeneas Mackintosh, Billy Mitchell, and Bagha Jatin. Among people deceased in 1951, Alfrēds Kalniņš ranks 115Before him are Gustave Sandras, Haj Ali Razmara, Fanny Brice, Leopold Andrian, Fritz Julius Kuhn, and Anna Tumarkin. After him are Dorothea Bate, J. C. Leyendecker, Ivor Novello, Miyamoto Yuriko, Ignaty Krachkovsky, and Nikola Mushanov.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Alfrēds Kalniņš ranks 124 out of 284Before him are Jānis Krūmiņš (1930), Lūcija Garūta (1902), Jānis Daliņš (1904), Jānis Ivanovs (1906), Eliyahu Rips (1948), and Grzegorz Fitelberg (1879). After him are Regīna Ezera (1930), Imants Kalniņš (1941), Andris Bērziņš (1951), Helmuts Balderis (1952), Laima Vaikule (1954), and Andrejs Upīts (1877).

Among COMPOSERS In Latvia

Among composers born in Latvia, Alfrēds Kalniņš ranks 6Before him are Pēteris Vasks (1946), Raimonds Pauls (1936), Jāzeps Vītols (1863), Balys Dvarionas (1904), and Jānis Ivanovs (1906). After him are Ēriks Ešenvalds (1977).