Performance at the Rudolf Tobias 151. Gala
Performance at the Rudolf Tobias 151. Gala
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The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, in cooperation with the Hiiumaa Cultural Society, announced a competition for compositions dedicated to Rudolf Tobias in November 2023 to highlight the composer's extraordinary significance in Estonian music. Paraphrases of Rudolf Tobias's well-known work "Eks teie tea" for solo piano were invited to the 6-8 minute long competition. The winning works will be performed at a gala concert dedicated to the 151st anniversary of Rudolf Tobias' birth in the Great Hall of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre on 29 May.
The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, in cooperation with the Hiiumaa Cultural Society, announced a competition for compositions dedicated to Rudolf Tobias in November 2023 to highlight the composer's extraordinary significance in Estonian music. Paraphrases of Rudolf Tobias's well-known work "Eks teie tea" for solo piano were invited to the 6-8 minute long competition. The winning works will be performed at a gala concert dedicated to the 151st anniversary of Rudolf Tobias' birth in the Great Hall of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre on 29 May.
Before announcing the winner of the competition for the concert of Tobias's works, Illia Humeniuk conducted the EAMT choral work Otsekui hirv, piano - Maksym Trotsenko.
Before announcing the winner of the competition for the concert of Tobias's works, Illia Humeniuk conducted the EAMT choral work Otsekui hirv, piano - Maksym Trotsenko.
The concert was broadcasted by Klassikaraadio. You can listen to the performance from the recording of the concert (Otsekui hirv sounds from 00:54:55).
Rudolf Tobias (1873-1918) was an Estonian composer, organist and choirmaster. He was born into the family of Johannes Tobias, a piano tuner and organ master at Käina Church parish in Hiiumaa. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied organ with Louis Homilius and composition with Professor Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, becoming the first Estonian composer with an academic training in composition. Tobias laid the foundations for the development of Estonian musicology and composed the first works in many genres of Estonian music. These include the first symphonic work, the first cantata ("Johannes Damascenus"), the first pathetique overture ("Julius Caesar"), the first oratorio ("Jonah's Mission"), the first piano concerto and the first piano sonata. Several of Tobias's choral songs are still well known today, including "Eks teie tea", based on a biblical text, which has been performed five times at the Song Festival.
photo bу: Rene Jakobson
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