Aarne, Els

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Aarne, Els

Aarne, Els, Estonian composer and teacher; b. Makeyevka, Ukraine, March 30, 1917; d. Tallin, June 14, 1995. She studied piano with Lemba at the Tallinn Cons, in Estonia and composition with A. Kapp. From 1944 to 1974 she taught at the Tallinn Cons.

Works

ORCH.: Piano Concerto (1945); 2 syms. (1961, 1966); Double Bass Concerto (1968); 3 cello concertos (1974, 1980, 1987). CHAMBER: Wind Quintet (1965); Nocturne for Cello and Piano (1970); 2 cello sonatas (1979, 1985). VOCAL: Fatherland, cantata for Chorus and Orch. (1939); Sing, Free People, cantata (1949); numerous songs.

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire