Lucija Garuta - Riga, Latvia
N 56° 57.101 E 024° 06.222
35V E 323858 N 6315740
This bust of Lucija Garuta, a Latvian pianist, poet and composer, is located outside the Arsenals Exhibition Hall, the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art, in Riga, Latvia.
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Location: Latvia
Date Posted: 09/15/2015
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This larger than life-size stone bust of Lucija Garuta depicts her with shoulder length hair. She is looking straight out in front of her. Her lips are puckered as though she is singing, speaking, or whistling. A marker at the site provides information in Latvian, English, and Russian. The English text reads:
"Guna Zvaigznite. Portrait of Lucija Garuta 1969
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).
Sculptress Guna Zvaigznite (b. 1929) has worked in various areas of sculpture, particularly focusing on portraits, as well as figural compositions of a metaphoric, poetic or dedicated content."
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