ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
dramatic. Kapp developed his thoughts through the breadth of vision, not paying too
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First performed by ERSO, 30 Sept. 1948, under Sergey Prokhorov.
much attention to refined details. His ideological aim was to advance the struggle and
development of despair and hardship towards the light.
The building materials for him were rocks. He did not like the finishing touches… A great
philosophic seriousness, honesty in work, evocativeness, profound love of classical music,
escape from the ravishing Bohemian spirit, cordiality, a peculiar humour, which could occur as
satire, the grotesque or sarcasm; all this was combined in him. 1
Heino Eller’s music was mostly inspired by nature; turning to nature’s infinite
resources he evoked the sense of spaciousness and largess in several of his works. This
feature is inherent in Eller’s earlier tone poems like Dawn and Calls of the Night. One
of the best works of Eller in his last creative period is undoubtedly the tone poem
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