Vītols (Vitol', Wihtol, Wihtols), Jāzeps (Iosif Ivanovich) (7–14/26–1863, Valmiyera; 4–24–1948, Lübeck). Latvian comp.; friend of Glazunov and A. K. Lyadov and a member of the Belyayev Circle. Grad. 1886 from the P. Cons., where he studied with Iogansen and N. Rimsky-Korsakov and taught from 1886–1918. Also was music critic of the daily St. Petersburger Zeitung from 1897–1914. After the Revolution, settled in Riga, where he establ. the Latvian Cons. (1919) and taught there until 1944, founded a…