ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
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lyric and intimate virtues are revealed to a greater extent than ever before. Olav Roots
commented:
Tubin has exchanged his masculine severity for mild pastel. Nordic night seems to spread soft
light over homely nature; twilight removes the distinctiveness of its contours. 3
A German critic fully acknowledged the works and the talent of the composer:
The Fourth Symphony is an ecstatic vision of the beautiful, an enrapturing fullness of sound, of
joy in this world, of nature and nation. First of all one feels that the sublime breath of a
powerful creative spirit is living in this work, of an artist who is creating by inner compulsion. 4
In the autumn of 1944, Tubin and nearly 70,000 Estonians left their homeland
and fled to the West, most of them compelled by the desire to be free from Soviet
tyranny. This was the greatest emigration in the nation’s history. It not only weakened
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