ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
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The first performance was at the Estonia Concert Hall, 4 Sept. 1939, conducted by Valerian Bierdiayew
(Poland).
Its timbre awakens in the listener the mood of a shepherd’s horn. In the third
movement a quiet theme is superseded by one of a dance character.
Example 39.
The typical curves of village music are highlighted.
In the development sections we can notice the miniature principle. The interval
of the fourth is influential together with the mixolydian seventh, it becomes the
determinant of the whole musical language. As an enrichment of the crispness, the
chorus of chromatic seventh and ninth chords stand out. The role of abundant harmonic
and melodic figuration is outstanding. The ornamentation is a typical feature of the
whole symphony. The individual manner of Eller is also expressed through contrasting
polyphony, especially in the Finale.
The First Symphony may seem static, though, such a basic lyric-epic nature
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