Helmers Pavasars
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| Born | May 19, 1903 |
| Died | 1998 |
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Helmers Pavasars(1903-1998) was a Latvian organist, composer, violinist, publicist, conductor and music teacher.
Life and career
Helmers Pavasars was born on 19 May 1903 in Lejasciems, Gulbene County, into the family of a pastor, Eduards Pavasars. When Pavasars was three years old, his family moved to Valmiera where he studied at the Valmiera Music School. In 1928, he graduated from the special theory and composition class taught by Jāzeps Vītols at the Latvian Conservatoire with a bachelor’s degree. He graduated in 1930 from the violin class of Ādolfs Mecs, and again in 1938 from the conducting class of Jānis Mediņiņš. Helmer Pavasars Choir songs were awarded prizes in the Latvian Song Festival Society's competition for new choral works before the 9th Song Festival in 1938. Up until 1931, Pavasars was a music teacher and organist in Riga. He then became a choir conductor, organist and violin teacher at music schools in Valmiera (1931-1932) and Cēsis (1931-1940). He then became the director in 1934 of the Cēsis People's Conservatoire (renamed in 1937). In Cēsis, he founded and directed the town’s symphony orchestra and also worked as a violin teacher and conductor at the Cēsis Teachers' Institute (1938-1940). From 1940, he was a lecturer of theoretical subjects at the Latvian Conservatoire. At the end of the Second World War in 1944, he fled to Germany, where he later worked as a lecturer at the Baltic University in Pineberg. He worked as a choir conductor and organist, mainly in Hamburg. In 1954, he began his career as an organist in London, and was the chief conductor at the English-Latvian Song Days (1958, 1961, 1967), as well as the 1st European Latvian Song Festival in Hamburg (1964). In 1990, he took part in the 20th General Latvian Song Festival in Riga and received an honorary professorship at the Latvian Academy of Music. He died in London on 12 June 1998, and his cremated remains were reinterred to Valmiera on 15 May 1999. Works Vocal music: Approximately 80 choral songs, 4 cantatas and around 40 solo songs. Instrumental music: 2 string quartets, "Concertino" for violin and piano. Symphonic music: concerto for violin and orchestra (1964).
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