ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
This was financed by the State
Broadcasting, with the assistance of British specialists from the company His Master's
Voice. Those records were systematically used in radio programmes; however, mass
production was interrupted by the war.
By the end of the independence period, the State Broadcasting orchestra had
won a good reputation and during those years several prominent conductors of that
time, among them Emil Cooper, Rhené Baton, Albert Coates, Eugen Jochum and
Hermann Abendroth, visited Tallinn .
In spite of several obstacles, the orchestra and its conductors carried out great
work, laying a firm foundation for the orchestra performance.
In the year 1940 the Soviet Estonian Radio was organised.
During the war years, musical activities were limited, but concerts and recitals
were given quite regularly under the German occupation regime until March 1944,
when Tallinn and other bigger Estonian towns were bombed by the Soviet air forces
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