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Cyrillus Kreek
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Estonia
- Active from
- 1889-12-03
- Active to
- 1962-03-26
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 9,100
- Total plays
- 53,606
Tags
Classicalcomposerestonianchoralcontemporary classical
Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962) was a leading promoter of the Estonian choir music, whose work focused largely on ethnomusicology. He was a well-known composer, conductor and music teacher. C. Kreek was the first Estonian to use phonograph in folkloric collection work. His personal collection of folk tunes consists of nearly 6000 recordings. Among his contributions was also the collection of the religious folk tunes of the Estonian Swedes. C. Kreek collected Estonian folk tunes mainly in the Western
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Kreek
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Estonia
- Place of birth
- Võnnu
- Place of death
- Haapsalu
- Occupation
- music teacher
- Educated at
- Saint Petersburg Conservatory
- Languages spoken
- Estonian
- Movement
- neoclassicism
- Instrument
- trombone
- Image
- Cyrillus Kreek.jpg
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- date of death
- 1962-03-26
- date of birth
- 1889-12-03
- Commons category
- Cyrillus Kreek
- birth name
- Karl Ustav Kreek
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