August Daniel Wiera (28 March 1853 Jaama manor, near Tartu – 26 March 1919 Tartu) was an

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

n theatre and music personnel. Under his guidance

Vanemuine Cultural Society Vanemuine Cultural Society ( et, Vanemuine) is an Estonian cultural organization. The society was established on 24 June 1865 by the initiative of Johann Voldemar Jannsen. At the beginning, the society focused on choir music. In 1869, first Es ...

's theatre collective became semi-professional. With August's help the Estonian theater became Semi-Professional and grew the group membership to one hundred. 1878 he become the head of Vanemuine Cultural Society. Until 1903 he worked at Vanemuine Cultural Society. Until 1913 he worked mostly at Bürgermusse. He was the first in Estonia who introduce the new genre:

music theatre Music theatre is a performance genre that emerged over the course of the 20th century, in opposition to more conventional genres like opera and musical theatre. The term came to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s to describe an avant-garde approac ...

Works

* Jannsen' "Pärmi-Jago unenägu" (1873) * Kivi's "Viru Villemi viimne otsus" (1887) * Conrad's "Õunapuu all" (1887)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wiera, August 1853 births 1919 deaths Estonian theatre directors 19th-century Estonian musicians 20th-century Estonian musicians People from Tartu