ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
refined orchestration serving dramatising purposes;
free shaping of classical forms, issuing from the logic of development. 1
Without doubt, Tubin is one of the greatest symphonists of our time. In the letter
of congratulation on the composer’s 75th birthday, musicologist Vardo Rumessen said:
In your music, the individual is always connected with the national, which, thanks to
thoroughly recognised musical materials and their musical dramaturgically clear development,
lifts one work after another to such height where boundaries between national and international
disappear. Thanks to that, your music has risen to epitomise all great human problems, with its
inner strength and philosophical substance.
In music you have combined the dramatic form of Rudolf Tobias, noble and tragic air,
philosophising and striving towards light, the keen taste and colourful orchestration of Heino
annaabi.ee 
