Valdemārs Ozoliņš

Valdemārs Ozoliņš (5 November 1896 Vestiena parish – 15 February 1973, Pueblo, Colorado, US) was a Latvian composer and conductor.

Valdemārs Ozoliņš was born November 5, 1896, in Vestiena, in the Governorate of Livonia (present-day Latvia).

Valdemārs Ozoliņš was honoured by the Latvian Culture fund for his solo and choir songs in 1926.

He had some involvement with the Baltic neopagan movement Dievturība, where he was the first conductor of the dievturi choir.

The urns of Valdemārs Ozoliņš and his wife Valija, née Alberts, were buried in Forest Cemetery, Riga, Latvia, on August 20, 1993, next to his teacher, professor Jāzeps Vītols.

Composer Valdemārs Ozoliņš
Valdemārs Ozoliņš at the piano in his youth
Composer Valdemārs Ozoliņš (from the left) together with brothers Aleksandrs Ozoliņš (in the middle) and Jānis Ozoliņš
Composer's parents Jānis Ozoliņš and Ieva Ozoliņa, lived in Vestiena.