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On 19 September 1919, Nikolajs Alunāns died in Riga – a composer, conductor, and one of the people who gave Latvian theatre a professional musical backbone. He had worked at the Riga Latvian Theatre, translated and staged operas, written music for plays, and founded the first Latvian symphony orchestra, Eifonija. The poignant detail is quiet: Alunāns did not live to see the opening of the Latvian Conservatoire, which he had dreamed of.
Alunāns’s life ended while the young Latvian state was still fighting for its existence, yet already building national cultural institutions. His work in theatre, criticism, and music education belongs to the period when Latvian professional music grew from societies and theatres into institutional culture.
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