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- Aldonis Kalnins
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- Aldonis Kalnins was born in Uz=ava near Ventspils on 26 February 1928.
He is respected both as a composer and musicologist. He graduated from
Utkin&s composition class at the Rêga Conservatory in 1954. In
1959 he became an editor for the publishing house of Liesma. He has participated
in several folklore expeditions for the Latvian Academy of Sciences and
has notated more than 1000 Latvian folksong melodies. A notable of Latvian
choral music, he has produced many richly developed arrangements of Latvian
folksong melodies for choir and for instrumental ensemble. In his choral
works he has succeeded in fusing Impressionist harmonic language with the
melodic material of Latvian folk mus
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