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Browse piano sheets by Mamerts Celminskis (harm.) on Zen Virtual Piano. Mamerts Celminskis was born in 1912 in Lithuania into a family with several generations of professional organists. After his grandfather's death the family moved to Skaistkalne, where his father took his grandfather's place at the organ. At thirteen he was allowed by the local Catholic parish priest to play the accompaniment at church services. Several generations of professional organists in the family, and a thirteen-year-old playing for church services, may suggest an instrument handed down through the generations. He also finished the conservatory in Daugavpils and went to Riga to deepen his composition studies with EmÄ«ls Melngailis. In 1929, when the first Latvian Catholic organists' school was founded, its only teacher was the seventeen-year-old Celminskis, who also became its director from 1934. The school ran under him until 1944. A conservatory course in Daugavpils and composition studies in Riga, set beside a school that ran under him until 1944, may suggest a musician whose own studies and his teaching of others were closely linked. As the Red Army approached he became a refugee, working as an organist in JÅ«rkalne, Alsunga and Aizpute until he settled in Riga in 1949, where over time he ended up at Riga's secondary school No. 50, whose historic anthem DzimtÄ skola he wrote. He also taught liturgical music at the Catholic seminary in Riga and was an organist for a long time at St. Albert's church there. In the 1930s he was considered the main Latvian Catholic church composer and arranger. A refugee's postings in JÅ«rkalne, Alsunga and Aizpute, set beside a 1930s standing as the main Latvian Catholic church composer and arranger, may suggest a church musician whose work continued while he moved from place to place. In what is called the forbidden time, he composed seven sacred masses, several cantatas and about a hundred sacred songs and liturgical chants, and issued several hymn books and Christmas song collections in his own harmonizations. In the Soviet era, fearing repression, his compositions did not appear in public with his name as author. With Latvia's rebirth Celminskis had his triumph: in 1990, at a sacred music concert in the Dom Church during the Song Festival, the State Academic Choir sang his Jesu Deus amor meus and Ave Maria. He was also admitted to the Latvian Composers' Union. A concert for his eightieth birthday was held on June 4, 1992, at the Great Hall of the University of Latvia, with the Latvija academic choir performing, and he died on January 25, 1993. Soviet-era compositions that did not appear in public with his name, set beside a 1990 concert in the Dom Church and his admission to the Latvian Composers' Union, may suggest that his name was attached to his work in public quite differently in the two periods.
Browse piano sheets by Mamerts Celminskis (harm.) on Zen Virtual Piano.
Mamerts Celminskis was born in 1912 in Lithuania into a family with several generations of professional organists. After his grandfather's death the family moved to Skaistkalne, where his father took his grandfather's place at the organ. At thirteen he was allowed by the local Catholic parish priest to play the accompaniment at church services. Several generations of professional organists in the family, and a thirteen-year-old playing for church services, may suggest an instrument handed down through the generations.
He also finished the conservatory in Daugavpils and went to Riga to deepen his composition studies with Emīls Melngailis. In 1929, when the first Latvian Catholic organists' school was founded, its only teacher was the seventeen-year-old Celminskis, who also became its director from 1934. The school ran under him until 1944. A conservatory course in Daugavpils and composition studies in Riga, set beside a school that ran under him until 1944, may suggest a musician whose own studies and his teaching of others were closely linked.
As the Red Army approached he became a refugee, working as an organist in JÅ«rkalne, Alsunga and Aizpute until he settled in Riga in 1949, where over time he ended up at Riga's secondary school No. 50, whose historic anthem DzimtÄ skola he wrote. He also taught liturgical music at the Catholic seminary in Riga and was an organist for a long time at St. Albert's church there. In the 1930s he was considered the main Latvian Catholic church composer and arranger. A refugee's postings in JÅ«rkalne, Alsunga and Aizpute, set beside a 1930s standing as the main Latvian Catholic church composer and arranger, may suggest a church musician whose work continued while he moved from place to place.
In what is called the forbidden time, he composed seven sacred masses, several cantatas and about a hundred sacred songs and liturgical chants, and issued several hymn books and Christmas song collections in his own harmonizations. In the Soviet era, fearing repression, his compositions did not appear in public with his name as author. With Latvia's rebirth Celminskis had his triumph: in 1990, at a sacred music concert in the Dom Church during the Song Festival, the State Academic Choir sang his Jesu Deus amor meus and Ave Maria. He was also admitted to the Latvian Composers' Union. A concert for his eightieth birthday was held on June 4, 1992, at the Great Hall of the University of Latvia, with the Latvija academic choir performing, and he died on January 25, 1993. Soviet-era compositions that did not appear in public with his name, set beside a 1990 concert in the Dom Church and his admission to the Latvian Composers' Union, may suggest that his name was attached to his work in public quite differently in the two periods.
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Mamerts Celminskis was a Latvian Catholic organist, composer and music teacher, born in 1912 and died on January 25, 1993.
He issued several hymn books and Christmas song collections in his own harmonizations.
He composed seven sacred masses, several cantatas and about 100 sacred songs and liturgical chants.
In 1990, at a sacred music concert in the Dom Church during the Song Festival, the State Academic Choir sang his Jesu Deus amor meus and Ave Maria.