Eduard Tubin

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Eduard Tubin

Eduard Tubin (* June 5 . Jul / 18th June  1905 greg. In Torila , today community Alatskivi in Kallaste , Estonia ; † 17th November 1982 in Stockholm ) was an Estonian composer who lived from 1944 in Sweden.

Life and music

Growing up in a rural environment, he learned various instruments such as flute, balalaika, violin and piano by himself. After completing his teacher training, he attended the music school in Tartu from 1924 , where he received training in composition from Heino Eller . He later worked as a bandmaster and conductor . First compositions followed, in which mainly influences of national folk tunes can be recognized. In his subsequent symphonic poems he followed compositional suggestions from Jean Sibelius , Anton Bruckner and Carl Nielsen .

On September 20, 1944, Tubin fled to Sweden from the advancing Red Army on board the sailor “Triina”. After a two-day journey, he, his wife Erika and their two sons were initially accepted into a Stockholm refugee camp. After the war he stayed in Sweden and settled in a Stockholm suburb. Among other things, he worked as a choir conductor and music arranger at the Drottningholm Theater. As a composer, however, he shouldn't be able to make a name for himself here for the time being. In 1961 he acquired Swedish citizenship. From 1966 onwards, thanks to government funding, he was able to devote himself entirely to composition. He died of cancer in 1982.

His compositional work includes ten symphonies (an eleventh symphony remained unfinished), instrumental works, suites , elegies and sonatas as well as choral works, ballets and operas . His works were long banned in Soviet-ruled Estonia. He was considered the most important symphony orchestra in Estonia.

Although he was initially denied recognition in his exile in Sweden, he was later awarded the Stockholm City Prize for Culture; shortly afterwards he was appointed a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music . - The Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi initiated a tubin renaissance in the 1980s, after Tubin's 6th Symphony was published by the Soviet company Melodija (33D-11609-610) with the Estonia Radio Symphony Orchestra under Järvis in 1963 had been.

Works

  • Symphonies
    • Symphony No. 1 in C minor (1931–34)
    • Symphony No. 2 The Legendary (1937-38)
    • Symphony No. 3 in D minor (1940–42)
    • Symphony No. 4 in A major Sinfonia lirica (1943/78)
    • Symphony No. 5 in B minor (1946)
    • Symphony No. 6 (1954)
    • Symphony No. 7 (1958)
    • Symphony No. 8 (1966)
    • Symphony No. 9 Sinfonia semplice (1969)
    • Symphony No. 10 (1973)
    • only the opening movement “Allegro vivace con spirito” of the 11th symphony from 1982 exists
  • Concerto for double bass and orchestra (1948)
  • Suites
    • Suite about Estonian dances
    • Estonian dance suite
  • Violin Sonata No. 2
  • Operas
  • Requiem for fallen soldiers
  • Ballet Kratt (German: the goblin )
  • Sonatas
    • Piano Sonata No. 1
    • Sonata for violin No. 2
    • Sonata for alto saxophone
  • Duos
    • Three pieces for violin and piano
    • meditation
    • Pastoral
  • Put
    • Fugue in C minor
    • Fugue in B flat minor
  • Piano works
    • Albumen
    • Three children's pieces
    • Muinasjutuke
    • Concertino for piano and orchestra
    • Piano quartet in C sharp minor

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of the Koddafer community (Estonian: Kodavere kogudus)
personal data
SURNAME Tubin, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Torila , today the municipality of Alatskivi near Kallaste , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1982
Place of death Stockholm