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Composer list
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Aldridge, Robert Livingston
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Amram, David
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Babbitt, Milton
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Bingham, Judith
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Brown, Earle
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Cage, John
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Cardew, Cornelius
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Crumb, George
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Dillon, James
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Dove, Jonathan
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Feldman, Morton
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Ferneyhough, Brian
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Franke, Bernd
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Genzmer, Harald
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Harrison, Lou
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Hersch, Fred
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Hillborg, Anders
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Hovhaness, Alan
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Kagel, Mauricio
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Ligeti, György
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Mayuzumi, Toshiro
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McNeff, Stephen
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Panufnik, Roxanna
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Philips, Julian
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Rathbone, Jonathan
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Reynolds, Roger
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Saunders, Rebecca
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Sheriff, Noam
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Tüür, Erkki-Sven
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Wallen, Errollyn
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Wallfisch, Benjamin
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Wolff, Christian
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Wuorinen, Charles
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Erkki-Sven Tüür
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Erkki-Sven Tüür, who was born in Kärdla on the Estonian island of Hiiumaa in 1959, is one of the most remarkable composers of his generation. Largely self-taught, he studied percussion and flute at the Tallinn Music School from 1976 to 1980; later, from 1980 to 1984, he studied composition with Jaan Rääts at the Tallinn Academy of Music and took private lessons from Lepo Sumera.
In 1979 Tüür founded a chamber rock group "In Spe" that soon became one of the most popular in Estonia. He functioned as composer, flutist, keyboard player and singer in this ensemble.
With the onset of perestroika Tüür's music was heard outside Estonia for the first time. His first great success in Finland (e.g. with Insula deserta of 1989) led to a number of commissioned works, including Searching for Roots: Hommage á Sibelius (1990) for the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Architectonics VI (1991) for the Helsinki Festival. Later he was commissioned to compose new works for the American Waterways Wind Symphony Orchestra, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, the Hilliard Ensemble, Cabaza Percussion Quartet, Estonian State Symphony Orchestra, David Geringas, Piano Circus and other groups and soloists in Europe and North America. He is currently fulfilling commissions from the Frankfurt RSO and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Tüür's music is being heard more and more frequently not only throughout Europe but also in North America, Australia and Japan. His oeuvre comprises orchestral, concert and chamber music, oratorios, opera, film scores and incidental music. His works have been performed at such festivals as Bang on a Can (New York), Border Crossings (Toronto), Musica (Strasbourg), Emerging Light (London), the Stockholm New Music Festival, the Vale of Glamorgan Festival, Wien Modern, and the festivals in Berlin, Salzburg and Gstaad.
"Erkki-Sven Tüür's music sounds as if it had strolled through the history of music assimilating theoretical inspiration and practical experience along the way. then it seems to have wrapped itself up in a cocoon immune to the outside world, there to develop its own contours."
(Wolfgang Sandner)
Among Tüür's many awards is the Cultural Prize of the Republic of Estonia (1991 and 1996). Today he is a freelance composer based in Tallinn.
"My work as a composer is entirely concerned with the relation between emotional and intellectual energy and the ways in which they can be channelled, accumulated, liquidated and re-accumulated. My pieces are abstract dramas in sound, with characters and an extremely dynamic chain of events; they unfold in a space that is constantly shifting, expanding and contracting, not so much like a mosaic, but rather in the manner of a block of sculpture. I am very interested in a combination of opposites - tonality versus atonality, regular repetitive rhythms versus irregular complex rhythms, tranquil meditativeness versus explosive theatricality - and especially in the way they gradually change from one to another. But to talk of the expressiveness of music is always to tread on undulating and unsteady ground, for people understand the meaning of music in very different ways." (Erkki-Sven Tüür)
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