ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
to our spiritual life (and that includes naturally political thinking), especially to our literature,
from the rich and healthy spiritual world of England and France. 1
The theatre also attempted to widen national identity. Mare ja ta poeg (Mare
and Her Son, 1935) by Aino Kallas, referring to events of the St. George’s Night
Uprising; Lipud tormis (Flags in the Storm, 1937) by Hugo Raudsepp, Nimed
marmortahvlil (Names in Marble, 1939) by Albert Kivikas2, both based on the War of
Independence and its consequences. In a lighter vein, the witty allegorical play
Kuningal on külm (The King Feels a Chill, 1936) by Anton Hansen Tammsaare
satirised many ideas from the past and present and their contradictions, the King
representing the decline of the Old World.
1
Looming (Creation) 9 (1933): 1081.
2
Based on his novel of the same title, the play was co-written with August Annist, it was filmed in 2002.
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