ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
noticeable. An example of this is Arvo Pärt’s Collage on B-A-C-H for string orchestra,
oboe, harpsichord and piano (1964), which has quotations from a Saraband by Bach
(The English Suite in D minor); also, in his Cello Concerto Pro et Contra (1966) with
Baroque cadenzas, and in Credo (1968) for mixed choir and symphony orchestra, the
basic material being the C major Prelude by Bach (from The Well-Tempered Clavier I).
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Ivar Kosenkraius, Film ja aeg: esseid, etüüde, portreevisandeid (Film and Time. Essays.) (Tallinn: Eesti
Raamat, 1974) 98.
At the end of the Sixties, the symphonism of Jaan Koha (1929-1993) reached
maturity. The thematic material of the First Symphony (1960)2 is thoroughly national,
though there are some influences from the Concerto for Orchestra by Bartók. Here, we
hear masculinity, vigour (the first movement) along with beautiful, softly coloured
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