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Ādolfs Skulte
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Ādolfs Skulte (Kiev, October 28, 1909 – Riga, March 20, 2000) was a Latvian composer and pedagogue. Among his pupils were the composers Aivars Kalējs, Romualds Kalsons, Imants Zemzaris, Romualds Grīnblats, Mārtiņš Brauns and Imants Kalniņš. As a composer, he wrote orchestral and vocal music, as well as three operas (one for children) and two ballets. His brother was the composer Bruno Skulte. “In the music of Ādolfs Skulte, a classical mind, a logical strictness, and an academic formal seriousness coexists with a fiery sense of orchestral color, an impulsive dancingness, and a sensuous concreteness, which is revealed throughout his work in an almost painterly artistic thinking, an almost objectively captured sound painting. Skulte represents that constellation of twentieth-century composers whose objective predisposition demanded a plastic beauty, mutability, and an aesthetic vision of great integrity – as opposed to stress-filled everyday life, tense psychologization and expressiveness. Overall, this objective predisposition was characteristic of the new national school, as seen in the works of Aram Khachaturian, Pancho Vladigerov, Karol Szymanowski, Ottorino Respighi, and Manuel de Falla.” Ingrīda Zemzare, Ph.D. LMIC 021 LMIC archive User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
