Lucija Garuta - Riga, Latvia
N 56° 56.983 E 024° 07.386
35V E 325028 N 6315472
A plaque on the building at Marijas iela 11 in Riga, Latvia, identifies it as the house where Lucija Garuta, a Latvian pianist, poet and composer, once lived.
Waymark Code: WMPNYB
Location: Latvia
Date Posted: 09/28/2015
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The plaque includes text in Latvian and Russian. The Latvian text reads:
Šai Nama No 1940, Lidz 1977, Gadam
Dzivoja Latvijas PSR Nopelniem Bagata
Makslas Darbiniece Komponiste
Lucija Garuta
/1902. - 1977./
[ENGLISH TRANSLATION]
In This House from 1940 until the Year 1977
Lived the Latvian SSR Honored
Songwriter and Composer
Lucija Garuta
/ 1902 - 1977 /
The following information about Lucija Garuta is from a plaque adjacent to a bust of her outside the Arsenals Exhibition Hall, the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art, in Riga, Latvia (visit link):
"Lucija Garuta (1902-1977) was a Latvian composer, pianist and poet who wrote the lyrics to her own songs. She studied together with one of the most distinguished Latvian composers, Jazeps Vitols, and she also worked as an accompanist. She wrote some 200 lyrical solo songs, mostly focused on her motherland, as well as the subjects of love and death. She also composed choral works, the opera "Silvery Bird" (1938) with her own libretto, and a series of symphonic compositions. One of her most outstanding works is the cantata "Lord, Your Earth is Burning! (1944)."