ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
The moods of
unsteady dejection, minor uneasiness and elegiac wistfulness are clearly felt, especially
in the latter.1 Eller is focusing his concentrated attention on his inner world, reflecting
other realities at the same time. Such a deepened psychological angle of vision is new
to him. Thought the last bars of the Third Symphony are leading to some clarification, it
is too short and does carry enough optimistic weight. The refreshing and vitalising
forces of nature have been abandoned.
Eller had been teaching for six years at the Tallinn Conservatoire when he
became Professor of Composition in 1946. There are many outstanding composers of
the second and third generation who studied with him, among them Villem Kapp, Boris
Kõrver, Jaan Koha, Jaan Rääts, Arvo Pärt and Heino Jürisalu.
Eller’s modesty was known to all his friends, colleagues and student. This quality is reflected
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