Jānis Zēvers / Johann Sehwers (28-06-1868 - 07-11-1940) Latvian composer
Lubomir Kavalek wrote shortly about Johann Sehwers in the "Washington Post", August 24, 2009: he "was a prominent linguist and literary historian. "Endspielstudien," a collection of his 64 endgame studies, was published in Germany in 1922.".
More information about Sehwers and other Latvian composers from Riga around 1900 can be found in Alain Pallier's article "Herman Mattison (Hermanis Matisons, 28xii 1894-16xi 1932)" in EG 185, July 2011, pp 215-219. Johann Sehwers was a renowned philologist. His field of research was the influence of German language in Latvian.
Some of his studies can be found, with enjoyable comments by John Beasley and further biographical details, in BESN Special number 49.
This is a good stalemate study, while the following endgame study deals with a different theme:
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