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.

Estonian Arnold Schoenberg Society, as a symbol of the 20th century’s musical avant-garde, 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.”

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