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2. Estonian Song Festival - Wikipedia

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   The festive procession of the IX Estonian Song Festival, 1928 XIX Song Festival in Soviet-occupied Tallinn, 1980 XXVI Song Festival in 2014 XXVII Song Festival in 2019. The Estonian Song Festival (Estonian: Eesti Üldlaulupidu, or simply laulupidu) held since 1869, is one of the largest choral events in the world, a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. [1]

3. Tallinn Song Festival Grounds - Wikipedia

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   In 1869 Johann Voldemar Jannsen established the Estonian Song Festival while the nation was still a province of the Russian Empire. This festival was considered responsible for fostering an Estonian national awakening. After that, the new tradition was born and the festivals are still held every five years.

4. List of Estonian choirs - Wikipedia

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   Type of choir Location (city/town) Further info Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir: mixed Tallinn Professional choir. Conductor: Paul Hilliard Estonian National Male Choir: male Tallinn Professional choir. Conductor: Mikk Üleoja Mixed Choir of Estonia Society mixed conductor: Heli Jürgenson Tallinn Old Town Mixed Choir mixed Tallinn

5. Gustav Ernesaks - Wikipedia

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   One of his songs, a setting of Lydia Koidula's poem Mu isamaa on minu arm, became an unofficial national anthem during the years of Estonian SSR. His performance of the song at the XVII Estonian Song Festival was one of the inspirations for Dmitri Shostakovich's 1970 a capella choral cycle, Loyalty. He dedicated the score to Ernesaks, who also ...

6. Baltic song festivals - Wikipedia

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   The tradition spread to Würzburg, Germany in 1845, and from there it reached the Baltic States via the Baltic Germans and their choral societies. [2] It was first held in 1869 in Estonia (Estonian Song Festival), and in 1873 in Latvia (Latvian Song and Dance Festival). Lastly, tradition came to the Lithuania (Lithuanian Song Festival) in 1924. [2]

7. Estonian TV Girls' Choir - Wikipedia

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   In 2005, Nigel Hildreth, on a Finzi Trust travel scholarship, witnessed the ETV Girls' Choir rehearsing and described it as one of the world's best girls' choirs. [9]In 2008, when Estonia celebrated its 90th anniversary, the choir was chosen to bring one of Estonia's musical gifts, the composer Urmas Sisask's "Veni Creator Spiritus" to Great Britain; he conducted the choir on that occasion.

8. Category:Estonian choirs - Wikipedia

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   Estonian National Male Choir; Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir; Estonian TV Girls' Choir This page was last edited on 4 March 2023, at 10:28 (UTC). Text is ...

9. Tõnu Kaljuste - Wikipedia

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   He was professor of choral conducting at the Tallinn Conservatory from 1978 to 1980 and won the Best Conductor prize at the 1980 Béla Bartók International Choral Competition. With financial support from the Estonian government, Kaljuste turned the Ellerhein Chamber Choir into a full-time ensemble and renamed it the Estonian Philharmonic ...