Which estonian composer invented the tintinnabuli technique

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After studying at the Tallinn Conservatory under Heino Eller, he worked as a sound engineer for Estonian Radio — His studies were interrupted by mandatory military service in the Soviet Army — , after which, in , he continued at the Tallinn State Conservatoire under Heino Eller graduating in Several works composed during his student years still belong to the official list of his compositions: two sonatinas — and partita for piano, and orchestral works such as Nekrolog , Perpetuum mobile and Symphony No.

Those were also the years of his early modernist compositions. Almost simultaneously through their music all the most important styles and compositional techniques of the 20th century were introduced to Estonian music: neoclassicism, dodecaphony, serialism, sonorism, collage technique and aleatoricism.

Nevertheless, none of those styles remained permanently in his work nor interested him for very long — many of his early compositions can be viewed rather as brilliant experiments or testing the boundaries. He describes those worlds as if separated by a deep abyss, which, at the same time, he longs to transcend. Those works are witness to the growing inner anxiety and crisis for the composer.

For some, including Milton Babbit , Karlheinz Stockhausen and Elliott Carter , this was a die-hard intellectual push, exploring ever more complex and densely-wrought musical systems. For others, such as Steve Reich , Philip Glass and John Adams , it meant a turn toward music that was appealing and more-or-less comprehensible upon first hearing. After a stint of military service at around the age of 20, he graduated from the Tallinn Conservatory under Heino Eller in His early works venture into a variety of 20th-century musical genres , including neo-Romanticism, neoclassicism and collage technique.

Serialism, another musical interest, was the antithesis of Socialist Realism and a style highly unpopular in the USSR. This stemmed not so much from musical contention, but from his avowal of Christianity under the militantly atheistic Soviet regime.