ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
freedom in form shaping, striving towards a national idiom in more abstract forms of
expression.
XX. ALO PÕLDMÄE: FULLNESS OF COLOURS AND MULTITUDE
OF DETAILS.
Alo Põldmäe was the last student of Heino Eller to graduate from the Tallinn State
Conservatoire in 1970. He worked as a music editor in the studio Tallinnfilm. In 1971
he became a member of the Estonian Composers’ Union, becoming its Secretary in
charge of management in 1980 and Vice-chairman1985-1993. In 1993 he became the
head of the Music Department of the Theatre and Music Museum.
Alo Põldmäe has a free and total command of the technology of composition. He has very good
sense of orchestra and his scores sound colourful, clear and logical. All this is proven in his
tone poem Atmospheres, one of his most remarkable works to date. In his character Põldmäe is
a lyric and his most successful works are skilfully connected with refined shades of colour and
diverse usage of detail.1
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