Urve Lippus

MUSIC IN THE SOVIET ESTONIA.



Although soviet powers started reorganizing musical life immediately in 1940, especially in the field based on the activities of the societies, the time to carry out fundamental changes was too short. An important breaking point was the year 1944, when a lot of people playing an active role in the musical life fled the country (Olav Roots, Eduard Tubin, Juhan Aavik etc.). * The real reorganization of the musical life and education by the soviet way began, imprisonment and deportation (e.g. Riho Päts, Alfred Karindi, Tuudur Vettik - the organizers of the first Song Festival after the war), decision of 1948 and witch hunt and discharging of bourgeois nationalists.... the prohibiting of church essentially raised the sacral function of classical music. That brought along a vacuum of not only religious but also sacral emotions


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