ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
executions were crimes. 2
History demonstrates that Estonians have been forced to defend their land against greedy
invaders from all sides (except Finland). As Academician Prof. Jüri Uluots, our last Premier,
remarked in the year 1942: the attack launched by Russia in 1939 was the fortieth in order
against Estonia since 1030 AD. Several promises given out by new national government have
not found fulfilment, illegals, enormous crowds of colonists, retired Russian servicemen, a hard
burden to the natives pressurised continuously.3
Observing from the world level, we have been able to add some firm building
blocks into the large edifice of musical creation of mankind and to promote the moving
process towards the Ideal. For a very long time, there has existed hunger for genuine
beauty and animation in music able to feed human souls in this mundane world full of
meanness, decay and crises