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Tõnu Kilgas
Tõnu Kilgas (13 August 1954 – 25 May 2021) was an Estonian singer (baritone) and stage, film, voice, and television actor. Early life and education Tõnu Kilgas was born in Tartu, the only child of Vanemuine theatre actors Lembit Mägedi and Ellen Kaarma. His parents were in a long-term relationship but not married and he took his mother's surname from her earlier marriage to actor Gunnar Kilgas. Both parents were largely absent from Kilgas' life during his childhood and he was primarily raised by his aunt. His mother battled alcoholism and died in 1973 when Kilgas was eighteen.Tõnu Kilgas: teater on mu elu suurim armastus! ''Vanemuine'', 5 May 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2017. Kilgas attended Tartu 3rd Secondary School (currently Tartu Raatuse School) and the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tartu
Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 97,759 (as of 2024). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of Riga, Latvia. Tartu lies on the Emajõgi river, which connects the two largest lakes in Estonia, Lake Võrtsjärv and Lake Peipus. From the 13th century until the end of the 19th century, Tartu was known in most of the world by variants of its historical name Dorpat. Tartu, the largest urban centre of southern Estonia, is often considered the "intellectual capital city" of the country, especially as it is home to the nation's oldest and most renowned university, the University of Tartu (founded in 1632). Tartu also houses the Supreme Court of Estonia, the Ministry of Education and Research (Estonia), Ministry of Education and Research, the Estonian National Museum, and the oldest Estonian-language theatre, Vanemuine. It is also the birthplace of the Estonian Song Festivals. Tartu was designated as the E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Abraham
Paul Abraham (; 2 November 1892 – 6 May 1960) was a Jewish-Hungarian composer of operettas, who scored major successes in the German-speaking world. His specialty – and own innovation – was the insertion of jazz interludes into operettas. Abraham was born in Apatin, Austria-Hungary (today Serbia), and studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music in Budapest from 1910 to 1916. He studied cello with Adolf Schiffer and Musical composition, composition with Victor von Herzfeld, Viktor Herzfeld. Career Abraham was a son of Jakab Ábrahám (c. 1859–1909) – who was a merchant from Apatin, later head of a small private bank – and Flóra Blau (1872-1943), who came from Mohács (South-Hungary, next to Danube). Like many other composers of operettas, Abraham started with works of a serious nature. During the decade following his studies he wrote, among other things, sacred music, string quartets and a concerto for violoncello. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Priboi
Operation Priboi ( – Operation "Tidal Wave") was the code name for the biggest Joseph Stalin, Stalin-era Population transfer in the Soviet Union, Soviet mass deportation from the Baltic states on 25–28 March 1949. Also known as the March deportation (; ; ). More than 90,000 Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, labeled as "enemies of the people, enemies of the state", were deported to Forced settlements in the Soviet Union, forced settlements in inhospitable Siberian areas of the Soviet Union. Over 70% of the deportees were either women, or children under the age of 16. Portrayed as a "dekulakization" campaign, the operation was intended to facilitate Collectivization in the Soviet Union, collectivisation and to eliminate the support base for the armed resistance of the Forest Brothers against the illegal Soviet occupation of Baltic states, Soviet occupation. The deportation fulfilled its purposes: by the end of 1949, 93% of farms in Latvia and 80% of the farms in Estonia were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katri Horma
Katri Horma (born 1970) is an Estonian former actress. Horma is the daughter of electronics engineer and filmmaker Peet Horma. Her grandfather was sculptor and restorer Paul Horma. Horma made her film debut in the starring role of Eliise in the Helle Karis directed Tallinnfilm ''Metsluiged'', based on the 1838 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale ''The Wild Swans''. In 1990, she was cast in the starring role of Imbi Tamm in the Peeter Simm directed historical drama ''Inimene, keda polnud'', also for Tallinnfilm. In 1991, she had a starring role as Nastja in the Abai Karpykov directed Russian-language film ''Vozdushnyy potseluy''. In 1994, she had a prominent role as Kristiina in the Peeter Urbla directed Exitfilm drama ''Balti armastuslood'' before deciding to retire from acting. Following a career as a stage and film actress, Horma retired from the industry to pursue further education. She has since worked in advertising and pursuing a PhD at Tallinn University Tallinn Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peeter Simm
Peeter Simm (born 24 February 1953 in Kiviõli) is an Estonian film director. In 1976 he graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). Selected filmography *''Ideaalmaastik'' (1980) *''Fed up!'' (2005) *''On the Other Side of Leprosy'' (2006) *''Georg (film), Georg'' (2007) *''Circulation of the Blood'' (2011) *''Lonely Island'' (2012) *''Englas. Old Warrior'' (2015) *''Koma'' (2018) *''Taagepera'' (2019) *''Vangis ja vabaduses'' (2019) *''On the Water (film), On the Water'' (2020) References 1953 births Living people Estonian film directors Estonian screenwriters Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 5th Class People from Kiviõli {{Estonia-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tõnu Kilgas 1990
Tõnu is an Estonian masculine given name, a version of Anthony. People named Tõnu include: *Tõnu Aare (1953–2021), musician *Tõnu Aav (1939–2019), actor *Tõnu Anton (born 1953), politician and judge * (1935–2020), film director *Tõnu Endrekson (born 1979), rower * Tõnu Haljand (1945–1997), skier * (born 1966), playwright, designer and critic * Tõnu Kalam, Estonian-American orchestral pianist and conductor *Tõnu Kaljuste (born 1953), conductor *Tõnu Kalvet (born 1970), journalist and politician ( :et) *Tõnu Kark (born 1947), actor * Tõnu Kauba (born 1952), physician and politician * Tõnu Kaukis (born 1956), track and field athlete and coach *Tõnu Kilgas (1954–2021), actor and singer * Tõnu Kõiv (born 1968), politician *Tõnu Kõrvits (born 1969), composer * Tõnu-Reid Kukk (1939–2011), politician *Tõnu Laanemäe (born 1977), architect ( :et) *Tõnu Laigu (born 1956), architect *Tõnu Lehtsaar (born 1960), psychologist and professor *Tõnu Lepik (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Berté
Heinrich Berté (), born Heinrich Bettelheim (8 May 1857 – 23 August 1924) was an Austria-Hungarian composer of operas and operettas. Life Heinrich Berté was born in Galgócz, Hungary (now Hlohovec, Slovakia) in a Jewish family. At the beginning of his career, he was a relatively unsuccessful composer of ballets and an opera. In 1911 he was offered a libretto by the writer Alfred Maria Willner for an opera about Franz Schubert, based on the novel, '' Schwammerl'' by Rudolf Hans Bartsch, but this was turned down and he was told to use Schubert's music in a pastiche instead. On 15 January 1916 his first performed work, an arrangement of Franz Schubert's '' Das Dreimäderlhaus'' was premiered in the Raimund Theater in Vienna, Gretl Schörg's voice was discovered during the run. The operetta was translated into 22 languages and in 1921 it opened as '' Blossom Time'' in New York City, in 1922 as '' Lilac Time ''in London), and was performed in over 60 countries, it was a worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a List of compositions by Franz Schubert, vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 ''Lieder'' (art songs in German) and other vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music, and a large body of piano and chamber music. His major works include "Erlkönig (Schubert), Erlkönig", "Gretchen am Spinnrade", and "Ave Maria (Schubert), Ave Maria"; the Trout Quintet, ''Trout'' Quintet; the Symphony No. 8 (Schubert), Symphony No. 8 in B minor (''Unfinished''); the Symphony No. 9 (Schubert), Symphony No. 9 in C major (''Great''); the String Quartet No. 14 (Schubert), String Quartet No. 14 in D minor (''Death and the Maiden''); the String Quintet (Schubert), String Quintet in C major; the Impromptus (Schubert), Impromptus for solo piano; the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Sullivan
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer. He is best known for 14 comic opera, operatic Gilbert and Sullivan, collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including ''H.M.S. Pinafore'', ''The Pirates of Penzance'' and ''The Mikado''. His works include 24 operas, 11 major orchestral works, ten choral works and oratorios, two ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous church pieces, songs, and piano and chamber pieces. His hymns and songs include "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "The Lost Chord". The son of a military bandmaster, Sullivan composed his first anthem at the age of eight and was later a soloist in the boys' choir of the Chapel Royal. In 1856, at 14, he was awarded the first Mendelssohn Scholarship by the Royal Academy of Music, which allowed him to study at the academy and then at the Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre, Leipzig Conservatoire in Germany. His graduation piece, inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jule Styne
Jule Styne ( ; born Julius Kerwin Stein; December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was an English-American songwriter and composer widely known for a series of Broadway theatre, Broadway musical theatre, musicals, including several famous frequently-revived shows that also became successful films: ''Gypsy (1962 film), Gypsy,'' ''Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,'' and ''Funny Girl (musical), Funny Girl.'' Early life Styne was born to a Jewish family in London, England. His parents, Anna Kertman and Isadore Stein, were emigrants from Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire) and ran a small grocery. Even before his family left Britain, he did impressions on the stage of well-known singers, including Harry Lauder, who saw him perform and advised him to take up the piano. At the age of eight, he moved with his family to Chicago, where he began taking piano lessons. He proved to be a Child prodigy, prodigy and performed with the Chicago, St. Louis, Missou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Strauss
Johann Baptist Strauss II (; ; 25 October 1825 – 3 June 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son (), was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas as well as a violinist. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime, he was known as "The Waltz King", and was largely responsible for the popularity of the waltz in the 19th century. Some of Johann Strauss's most famous works include " The Blue Danube", " Kaiser-Walzer" (Emperor Waltz), " Tales from the Vienna Woods", " Frühlingsstimmen", and the "Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka". Among his operettas, ''Die Fledermaus'' and '' Der Zigeunerbaron'' are the best known. Strauss was the son of Johann Strauss I and his first wife Maria Anna Streim. Two younger brothers, Josef and Eduard Strauss, also became composers of light music, although they were never as well known as their brother. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became Standard (music), standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway theatre, Broadway and in Hollywood films. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, Porter defied his grandfather's wishes for him to practice law and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn to musical theatre. After a slow start, he began to achieve success in the 1920s, and by the 1930s he was one of the major songwriters for the Broadway musical stage. Unlike many successful Broadway composers, Porter wrote the lyrics as well as the music for his songs. After a serious horseback riding accident in 1937, Porter was left disabled and in constant pain, but he continued to work. His shows of the early 1940s did not contain the lasting hits of his best work of the 1920s and 1930s, but in 1948 he made a triumphant comeback w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
