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Lepo Sumera
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- Born
- 1950
- Died
- 2000
- Works
- 2
Top works
- In E flat
- Three piano pieces for children
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Tallinn, Harju County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Lepo Sumera (May 8, 1950 – June 2, 2000) was an Estonian composer and teacher. He was born in Tallinn and studied with Veljo Tormis in his teens, and from 1968, with Heino Eller at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (then Tallinn State Conservatory). After Heino Eller's death in 1970, he studied with Heino Jürisalu, graduating in 1973. He then did postgraduate study at the Moscow…
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Lepo Sumera (8.05.1950 - 2.06.2000) was a professor at the Estonian Music Academy where he studied composition under Prof. Heino Eller (1887 - 1970). He is a versatile composer, whose various stylistic periods have one thing in common: a subtle treatment of rhythm and an independent dramaturgy of timbres. Sumera is one of the most important symphonic composers in Estonian music. He has close ties to electronic and chamber music beyond his interest in the symphonic orchestra. His works have been
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Tallinn
- Place of death
- Tallinn
- Occupation
- politician
- Languages spoken
- Estonian
- Genre
- symphony
- Image
- Miss Tallinn 88 Lepo Sumera.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1926-05-08
- date of death
- 2000-06-02
- place of burial
- Metsakalmistu
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- Lepo Sumera
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