ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
ideas, strivings, explorations, discoveries, success and failure. This is the musical
chronicle of an epoch already lived. Naturally, one person cannot grasp it totally with
all its multiple manifestations: it seems impossible. Therefore we have to have certain
reservations when evaluating the works of composers who are still writing. There is no
temporal distance between music and the listener. The spirituality and pithiness of
music opening up in the course of time pronounce the last word on either the value or
worthlessness of any musical composition.
I am writing about Estonian symphonists and symphonism. What do I mean by
this term? For example, one can speak of the symphonism of Eduard Tubin, Artur Kapp
and Arvo Pärt. In its best and exact sense symphonism means the creation of a sublime
philosophical idea in music in an intense extensive and developing form. Symphonism
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