ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
thoroughly recognised musical materials and their musical dramaturgically clear development,
lifts one work after another to such height where boundaries between national and international
disappear. Thanks to that, your music has risen to epitomise all great human problems, with its
inner strength and philosophical substance.
In music you have combined the dramatic form of Rudolf Tobias, noble and tragic air,
philosophising and striving towards light, the keen taste and colourful orchestration of Heino
Eller, the interest of Mart Saar and Cyrillus Kreek in ancient folk tune with their aspiration to
nationality, and the massive expression of Artur Kapp with its straightforwardness. Thanks to
all that you have become, in my opinion, for Estonians the same as Jean Sibelius for the Finns
and Béla Bartók for the Hungarians.2
Eduard Tubin and his work form a fundamental part of Estonian culture. His art
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