Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music is a higher education establishment of music at 1 Barona Street,
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History
Latvian Conservatory of Music was founded in 1919. There were junior and senior courses that covered around 9 to 10 academic years. Beginning 1940 the structure of the conservatory changed: the lower junior courses were transferred in secondary education system and later became a base for Jāzeps Mediņš's and Emīls Dārziņš's secondary schools of music. And there formed up courses of higher school in the conservatory. Beginning 1 October 1951 LPSR institute of Theater was joined to the conservatory, reorganizing it to a faculty of theater with departments of acting and directing. In May 1958 renamed to Jāzeps Vītols Latvian conservatory. In January 1964 conservatory had been renamed to J.Vītols Latvian institute of Art, but in July 1964 institute was renamed back to J.Vītols Latvian conservatory.
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