ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
protest. Musicologist Yuri Korev from Moscow noted:
It must be admitted that the composer has realized his aim in full. We feel that in
Nekrolog the composer has expressed spiritual restlessness and tragic weakness. But can a
Soviet artist confine himself only to the most reflexive recognition of terror and horror? If Pärt
were a mature artist, he most likely would not have striven for illustrating his sensations instead
finding in this exciting theme something worthier… This is the spiritual strength, endurance
and noble faith in the coming triumph of progress and humanity.1
Estonian musicologist Karl Leichter stated:
Nekrolog is more a description of fascist death camps with their monstrous ghastliness
than a customary obituary. As an artistic documentation of stunning inhumanity the influence of
1
Yuri Korev, Sovetskaya Muzyka May (1961): 131 – 132.
the work cannot be disregarded
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