Eller Heino. Ballaad Klaverile

Tallin: NSVL Muusikafondi Eesti Vabariiklik, 1958. — 18 p.Heino Eller was one of the pioneers of contemporary Estonian music. His work forged an idiom fusing the classical and romantic traditions, modernism, and folk music inflections. Eller was above all a composer of instrumental music, and even his few vocal works are written as arrangements of instrumental pieces. About 40 works for orchestra and over 200 for piano make up the major part of Eller’s oeuvre. The better part of his orchestral music is made up of short pieces reflective of scenes from nature and expressionist moods – symphonic scenes and poems. The general characteristics of Eller’s idiom are an intimate, chamber-like style and a polyphonic texture rich in detail.