ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
its own mode of delivery, rising to the level of a civilised country among the other
European states.
HALF A CENTURY UNDER SOVIET OCCUPATION. IDEOLOGY
OVER MUSIC. EXTENSIVE INFLUX OF CONTEMPORARY
TRENDS.
VIII. THE FORTIES. TRANSFORMATION OF ESTONIAN LIFE.
THE WAR-TIME SYMPHONIC OUTPUT.
1
Mihkel Lüdig, Mälestused (Memoirs) (Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1969) 187.
2
Hans Kruus, Eesti rahva kutsumusest ja rahvusterviklusest (The mission and national integrity of the
Estonians) (Tartu: Eesti Üliõpilaste Seltsi Vilistlaskogude Liidu Kirjastus, 1940) 28-29.
Just before the outbreak of World War II in a secret protocol of the non-
aggression pact1 entered into by Nazi Germany and the USSR, the Baltic states had
been placed in the sphere of influence of the Soviet Union. Almost immediately after
the signing of the pact, the Soviet government forced upon Estonia a treaty of mutual