Name Georgs Pelecis Education Moscow Conservatory | Role Composer | |
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Albums Eastern European Piano Music Similar People Alexei Lubimov, Heinrich Schiff, Sofia Gubaidulina, Henryk Gorecki, Galina Ustvolskaya | ||
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Georgs Pelēcis (also Georges Pélétsis; born 18 June 1947) is a Latvian composer and musicologist. He is currently a Professor at the Latvian Academy of Music.
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Vladimir martinov georgs pel cis correspondence of two pianists 2002
Compositional career
Pelēcis was born in Riga. He studied under Aram Khachaturian at the Moscow Conservatory, 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".
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.
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.