Georgs Pelēcis
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Georgs Pelēcis is a Latvian composer and musicologist. He is currently a Professor at the Latvian Academy of Music
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at the Moscow Conservatory
, and has worked in a creative capacity at Oxford University and Cambridge University. His style is best described as "new consonant music", notable for its "amazingly clear positive spirit".
Notable works include:
in work from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque eras. He has written theses focusing on the work of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
and Johannes Ockeghem
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Pelēcis teaches the history of theory and counterpoint at the Latvian Academy of Music, and was the first president of the Riga Center for Early Music.
Latvian Academy of Music
The Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music , formerly Riga Conservatory, is the major higher learning music institution in Latvia. The junior institute is the Emils Darzins Music School.-History:...
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Composition career
Pelēcis studied under Aram KhachaturianAram Khachaturian
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...
at the Moscow Conservatory
Moscow Conservatory
The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...
, and has worked in a creative capacity at Oxford University and Cambridge University. His style is best described as "new consonant music", notable for its "amazingly clear positive spirit".
Notable works include:
- Revelation, Concerto for counter-tenor, piano, and trumpet
- Nevertheless, Concerto for violin, piano, and strings
- Buena-Riga
- The Last Song
- Flowering Jasmine, Concerto for violin, vibraphone, and strings
- Jack and the Beanstalk, Music for the Roald Dahl Fable for symphony orchestra and narrators
Musicology career
Pelēcis' musicological work focuses on musical formMusical form
The term musical form refers to the overall structure or plan of a piece of music, and it describes the layout of a composition as divided into sections...
in work from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque eras. He has written theses focusing on the work of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition...
and Johannes Ockeghem
Johannes Ockeghem
Johannes Ockeghem was the most famous composer of the Franco-Flemish School in the last half of the 15th century, and is often considered the most...
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Pelēcis teaches the history of theory and counterpoint at the Latvian Academy of Music, and was the first president of the Riga Center for Early Music.