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Lepo Sumera (8 May 1950 – 2 June 2000) was an Estonian composer and teacher.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sumera, Lepo 1950 births 2000 deaths Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre alumni Tallinn Music High School alumni Government ministers of Estonia Musicians from Tallinn Moscow Conservatory alumni 20th-century Estonian composers Burials at Metsakalmistu People's commissars and ministers of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
Lepo Sumera (8 May 1950 – 2 June 2000) was an Estonian composer and teacher.
Life and career
He was born inTallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju '' ...
and studied with Veljo Tormis in his teens, and from 1968, with Heino Eller
Heino Eller (7 March 1887 – 16 June 1970) was an Estonian composer and pedagogue, known as the founder of contemporary Estonian symphonic music.
Life
Eller was born in Tartu, where he took private lessons in violin and music theory, played i ...
at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
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 ...
(then Tallinn State Conservatory). After Heino Eller's death in 1970, he studied with Heino Jürisalu, graduating in 1973. He then did postgraduate study
Postgraduate or graduate education refers to academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate (bachelor's) degree.
The organization and struc ...
at the Moscow Conservatory
The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (russian: Московская государственная консерватория им. П. И. Чайковского, link=no) is a musical educational inst ...
(1979–1982) with the Russian composer Roman Ledenev. Sumera first came to notice in 1972 with ''In Memoriam'', an orchestral tribute to Eller.
Legacy
He is considered one of Estonia's most renowned composers along with Eller, Eduard Tubin and Arvo Pärt, he was also his country's Minister of Culture from 1988 to 1992 during the days of theSinging Revolution
The Singing Revolution; lv, dziesmotā revolūcija; lt, dainuojanti revoliucija) was a series of events that led to the restoration of independence of the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the Soviet Union at the end of ...
.Huang (12 June 2000) As such he was the last Minister of Culture of the Estonian SSR, and the first Minister of Culture after Estonia re-gained independence.
See also
* 20th-century classical music * Culture of EstoniaReferences
External links
Lepo Sumera official web site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sumera, Lepo 1950 births 2000 deaths Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre alumni Tallinn Music High School alumni Government ministers of Estonia Musicians from Tallinn Moscow Conservatory alumni 20th-century Estonian composers Burials at Metsakalmistu People's commissars and ministers of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic