Edgar Arro (24 March 1911

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– 24 December 1978 Tallinn) was an

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n composer. In 1935 he graduated from

Tallinn Conservatory The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (''Eesti Muusika- ja Teatriakadeemia'') began as a mixed choir of the Estonia Society Musical Department (EMD) on the eve of World War I. The assembly of the Estonia Society created the Tallinn Higher Musi ...

in organ discipline and in composition discipline. During WW II he was mobilised to the rear area in the Soviet Union. During the war times he took place in the work of the State Artistic Ensembles of the Estonian SSR. Since 1944 he was a member of

Estonian Composers' Union Estonian Composers' Union (abbeviation ECU; et, Eesti Heliloojate Liit) is an Estonian creative union which encompasses professional composers and musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logi ...

. From 1944 to 1952 he taught at Tallinn Music School. From 1944 to 1978 he taught music theory at Tallinn State Conservatory.

Works

* 1954: operetta "Rummu Jüri" * 1958: operetta "Light in the Home Port" (composed in cooperation with Leo Normet)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Arro, Edgar 1911 births 1978 deaths 20th-century Estonian composers Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre alumni Academic staff of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre People from Tallinn Burials at Metsakalmistu Soviet composers