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During his forty-two years of work at the
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Jānis Cimze was the first prominent
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Cimze was born at the Rauna Manor's Cimze dairy farm (hoflage) in the family of a manor's dairy farm overseer
Andreas (Ansis) Cimze and his wife Anne as the first child of 8 for his parents. His initial education came from Rauna Parish School where he also learned to play the organ. From the age of
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was one of the chief conductors at the Song
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