Veljo Tormis
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Estonian composer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Veljo Tormis was an Estonian composer, regarded as one of the great contemporary choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia. Internationally, his fame arises chiefly from his extensive body of choral music, which exceeds 500 individual choral songs, most of it a cappella. The great majority of these pieces are based on traditional ancient Estonian folksongs , either textually, melodically, or merely stylistically.
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