Culture of Latvia

Cinema

The Latvia account a large scenario writer, Sergueï Mikhaïlovitch Eisenstein, which was born there in 1898 and which is especially known for “the Battleship Potemkine” (1925).

Music

The language and the Latvian culture before the 19th century were transmitted by oral voice and mainly by the means of small songs called Daina S. This part of the Latvian folklore that little was not translated.

Latvia organizes every four years a festival of song which accommodates 20.000 chorus-singers with Rīga.

Nowadays, Latvia whose inhabitants are called them-even it populates singing is rich of an important musical production and sweeps all the horizons. However, the musical production is not really vector of ideological exchanges or claim in the major part of the cases. The most popular topic remaining that of the love.

Imants Kalnins and Raimonds Pauls are the principal contemporary type-setters and most popular in Latvia.

Other important type-setters Andrejs Jurjāns (1856-1922) and Jazeps Vītols (1863-1948); currently, Mariss Jansons (1943) and Gidon Kremer (1947) are two leaders of international repute.

Literature

The literary production knew its hours of glory under the feather of Janis Rainis (1865-1929) and Anna Brigadere (1861-1931) at the beginning of the 20th century. Nowadays, the Latvian literature was especially represented by Vizma Belsevica (1931-2005), poetess not translated into French but quoted among possible the Nobel Prize of literature.

Structure

Mikhaïl Eisenstein was the architect of the art nouveau with Rīga. He is the father of the realizer.

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