Leo Normet (17 September 1922

Pärnu Pärnu () is the fourth-largest city in Estonia. Situated in southwest Estonia, Pärnu is located south of the Estonian capital, Tallinn, and west of Estonia's second-largest city, Tartu. The city sits off the coast of Pärnu Bay, an inlet of ...

– 27 December 1995

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) was an

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n composer,

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

. In 1950, he graduated from

Tallinn State 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 composition speciality. Since 1954, he taught music history at Tallinn State Conservatory (since 1991 the professor). As a musicologist, he was focused on

Jean Sibelius Jean Sibelius (; ; born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 186520 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic music, Romantic and 20th-century classical music, early modern periods. He is widely regarded as his countr ...

' legacy. He was one of the founders of

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in 1992, and also being its first chairman. Since 1945, 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 ...

Works

* operetta "Hermese kannul" (1946; with

Boris Kõrver Boris Kõrver (12 April 1917 – 17 August 1994) was a Soviet and Estonian composer. Biography Kõrver was born in Revel 12 April 1917. In 1950, he graduated from Tallinn State Conservatory in composition specialty. During World War II, he ...

) * operetta "Rummu Jüri" (1954; with Edgar Arro) * operetta "Tuled kodusadamas" (1958; with Edgar Arro) * operetta "Stella Polaris" (1961) * opera "Valgus Koordis" (1955) * opera "Pirnipuu" (1973)

References

1922 births 1995 deaths 20th-century Estonian composers Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre alumni Academic staff of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre Musicians from Pärnu {{Estonia-musician-stub