Edgar Arro (24 March 1911

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

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

Estonian Composers' Union Estonian Composers' Union (abbreviation ECU; ) is an Estonian creative union which encompasses professional composers and musicologists in Estonia. The chairman of ECU is Märt-Matis Lill. Since 2005, ECU is a member of the International Societ ...

. 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 Leo Normet (17 September 1922 Pärnu – 27 December 1995 Tallinn) was an Estonian composer, musicologist. In 1950, he graduated from Tallinn State Conservatory in composition speciality. Since 1954, he taught music history at Tallinn State Cons ...

)

References

1911 births 1978 deaths Musicians from Tallinn People from Kreis Harrien 20th-century Estonian composers Soviet composers Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre alumni Academic staff of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre People's Artists of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic Honoured Workers of the Arts Industry of the Estonian SSR Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Burials at Metsakalmistu {{Estonia-musician-stub