ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
the frame forced upon the nation by the war conditions. All the power in cultural
matters was in the hands of the General Commissioner Karl Sigismund Litzmann
(1893-1945); all German officers and the Estonian Local Government, headed by Dr.
Hjalmar Mäe (1901-1978) were subordinated to him. Literary life became quite
discreet. The poetry collection Mureliku suuga (With Troubled Mouth, 1942) by Marie
Under deeply reflects the hard times. In the arts, life proceeded relatively vivaciously:
many exhibitions; German officers and Estonians were consumers of art production,
which had retained republican traditions gaining both aesthetic and nostalgic meaning.
The musical life in Tallinn was quite lively. During the 1943-1944 season ten
symphony concerts, thirteen special concerts and some chamber music evenings took
place. It lasted until the spring of 1944 when the Soviet Air Force bombed all the major
towns of Estonia
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