Lepo Sumera
Lepo Sumera (8 May 1950 – 2 June 2000) was an Estonian composer and teacher.
Life and career
[edit]He was born in Tallinn and studied with Veljo Tormis in his teens, and from 1968, with Heino Eller at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (then Tallinn State Conservatory). After Heino Eller's death in 1970, he studied with Heino Jürisalu, graduating in 1973. He then did postgraduate study at the Moscow Conservatory (1979–1982) with the Russian composer Roman Ledenev. Sumera first came to notice in 1972 with In Memoriam, an orchestral tribute to Eller.[1][2][3]
Legacy
[edit]He is considered one of Estonia's most renowned composers along with Heino Eller, Eduard Tubin and Arvo Pärt,[4] he was also his country's Minister of Culture from 1988 to 1992 during the days of the Singing Revolution.[5] As such he was the last Minister of Culture of the Estonian SSR, and the first Minister of Culture after Estonia re-gained independence.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Great Composers: Lepo Sumera" – via www.youtube.com.
- ^ Rickards, Guy (23 June 2000). "Lepo Sumera". the Guardian.
- ^ "The Torchbearer Dies. Central Europe Review, Vol. 2, No 23, 12 June 2000. Accessed 17 February 2009-Huang, Mel". Archived from the original on 21 April 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Rickards (23 June 2000)
- ^ Huang (12 June 2000)
- ^ Levon Hakobian (25 November 2016). Music of the Soviet Era: 1917–1991 (2 ed.). Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-09186-8.
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