ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
may lead the wrong way… 3
Presenting some stylistic features of Alo Põldmäe’s output Priit Kuusk mentions
instrumentality, use of timbre, hidden polyphony, technical complexity side by side
with open emotions, intimacy, closeness to nature and rural life. Also playfulness, and
submerging into the Estonian character and attention to global issues.4
1
Kristel Pappel, Sirp ja Vasar 21 Nov. 1986.
2
Alo Põldmäe. On Music. Õhtuleht 13 Febr. 1979.
3
Alla Grigoryeva. Focus on Current Problems. Sovetskaya Muzyka 8 (1979) 32.
4
Eesti tänase muusika loojaid (Creators of Modern Estonian Music) (Tallinn: Eesti Muusikafond, 1992)
101-102.
XXI. MATI KUULBERG: SPECTACLE, BRILLIANCE, LIGHTNESS.
Mati Kuulberg studied composition at the Tallinn State Conservatoire with
Anatoli Garshnek, who in a recommendation letter for the Composers’ Union in 1971,
wrote of his student:
Kuulberg is very diligent and he has gained a firm composition technique
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