ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
1980), writer Eduard Vilde (1865-1933), artists and book illustrators Konrad Mägi and
Nikolai Triik.
The first decades of the new century saw the reformation of the literary
language. Johannes Aavik enriched the vocabulary and modernised its structure.
Johannes Voldemar Veski and Villem Ridala should also be mentioned as meritorious
linguistic innovators.
In Tartu the new building of the Vanemuine Theatre was inaugurated in 19061–
an event that turned into an international affair. The prominent stage producer and
theatre educator Karl Menning (1874-1941) became head of the company in Tartu and
continued with his principles of ensemble theatre. His method based on psychological
realism would influence the Estonian theatre for decades. In his opinion the main
function of theatre had to be educational. A position similar to Menning was held by
Karl Jungholz (1878-1925) in Tallinn
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