Georgs Pelēcis

Georgs Pelēcis (also Georges Pélétsis;[1] born 18 June 1947) is a Latvian composer and musicologist. He is currently a Professor at the Latvian Academy of Music.

Compositional career

Pelēcis was born in Riga. He studied under Aram Khachaturian at the Moscow Conservatory,[2] and has worked in a creative capacity at Oxford University and Cambridge University. His style has been described as "new consonant music", with an "amazingly clear positive spirit".[2][3]

Notable works include:

Musicological career

Pelēcis' musicological work focuses on musical form 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.[4]

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.[5]

References

  1. Pelēcis, Georgs, 1947-. From Library of Congress Name Authority File.
  2. 1 2 Georgs Pelecis. Biography.
  3. New Consonant Music. Composers."Georgs Pelecis".
  4. Musica Baltica. Georgs Pelēcis. List of published works. Curriculum Vitae.
  5. Georgs Pelecis - Latvian composer and musicologist.

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