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Biography
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Alfrēds Kalniņš
Real name: Alfrēds Bruno Jānis Kalniņš
Effective period / Period of releases: 1963 - 1981
Latvian composer, organist, pedagogue, music critic and conductor; the founder of national Latvian opera. Kalniņš is primarily remembered for his national opera Baņuta (1920). Born 1879 in Cēsis – died 23 December 1951 in Riga.