ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
but the tensions in his music do not grow from the antagonism of opposites. They are
introduced with new themes (Finale). Even with the large amount of Estonian
symphonic music this work catches our attention, just with is sincerity and openness of
emotion. In its best movements, the composer is uniquely individual. The First
Symphony belongs to the treasury of Estonian classical symphonic music.
Paying homage to Aavik, Mrs. Juta Kurman stated at the festive concert meeting
in the New York Estonian House in January, 1979:
Aavik’s music has its own profile, it is clear and elegiac, trying to offer a harmonious language
among the restless extremes of the present time, consoling the soul but, first of all, giving
aesthetic enjoyment. The silently idealistic mentality of Aavik does not need to be in originality,
offering neither great drama, innovating dissonant revolution nor discovering novel idioms.
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