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Website. www.jvlma.lv/. Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music ( Latvian: Jāzepa Vītola Latvijas Mūzikas akadēmija ), formerly the Riga Conservatory, is a higher education establishment of music at 1 Barona Street, Riga, Latvia. The junior institute is the Emīls Dārziņš Music School .
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Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music (previously Latvian Conservatoire) was founded in 1919. It offers 13 state-accredited undergraduate, graduate and doctoral full-time study programmes including music performance, conducting, composition, music science, music pedagogy and choreography.
In 1918, Vītols returned from Russia to his newly independent Latvia to conduct the Latvian National Opera. The following year, he established the first Latvian Conservatory of Music, which was later renamed the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music in his honor, and he ran the composition classes there between 1919 and 1944.
Jāzeps Vītols (Joseph Wihtol) – the first truly universal master of Latvian music whose creative work raised almost all the main genres to the level of classic perfection and faultless artistry. He is the intellectual father of several generations of composers.
