ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
Eugen Kapp:
Eugen Kapp has been able to offer an artistic representation where the difference between folk
tune and the author’s thought has been eliminated, where everything has been transformed into
national music.2
Here the protagonist is the Estonian nation, with all their joy, grief and struggle.
Kalevipoeg (the son of Kalev, legendary ruler of the Estonians) shines as an exemplary
icon of national traits. The composer Alexei Sevastianov commented:
The value of the work stands in retaining the unique national fragrance which belongs to the
epic. The nation is immortal, it is unconquerable: this is the idea behind the literary poem. 3
It could be said that the Symphony, written by Eduard Oja (1945-47), is
subjective, a document that relates an Estonian notion of the world. 4 The national form
of articulation, in the first two movements: dark attitudes, devout meditation and
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