Name of organization Eesti Arnold Schönbergi Ühing (Estonian Arnold Schoenberg
Society)
Country Estonia
Organization website https://schoenberg.ee/
Contact person Andrus Kallastu, [email protected]
Organisation type non-governmental nonprofit organization
Scale of the organization small and medium-sized enterprises
PIC number 875067071
Aims and activities of the
organization
Estonian Arnold Schoenberg Society was established in August
1992 by eleven young musicians, most of whom were studying
or had studied in the Tallinn Conservatoire (now Estonian
Academy of Music and Theatre). The Society arose as a
reaction to the situation that prevailed in the relatively
conservative and uniform musical life in Estonia in the late
1980s, and as a yearning for a new spirit in the music scene.
As a symbol of the 20th century's musical avant-garde Arnold
Schoenberg had been seen as its spiritual father. For the
society it was important to "domesticate" new musical ideas in
the cultural space of Estonia: the statutes of association aims
to "investigate and disseminate the musical heritage of Arnold
Schoenberg and his pupils, as well as other innovative musical
traditions related to musical modernism."
