Villem kapp biography samples

September 7, 1913, Suure-Jaani – March 24, 1964, Tallinn
Member of the Estonian Composers' Union

The output of Villem Kapp is characterized by spontaneous emotion and simple musical language with romantic color.

Although he has composed music almost in every genre, the most valuable are Kapp’s choral and solo songs. Also his opera Lembitu, two symphonies, cantata To the Spring, choral poem Northern Coast and wind quintet form an important part of his oeuvre.

Villem Kapp, the youngest of the Kapp dynasty of musicians, nephew of the composer and composition professor Artur Kapp, graduated from the Tallinn Conservatory in 1938, as an organist in August Topman’s class and in 1944, as the composer in the class of Heino Eller (in 1935–1938 and 1940–1941 Villem Kapp also studied with his uncle Artur Kapp).

Villem Kapp was active as choral conductor (mixed choir Kalju of Tallinn Education Society and mixed choir Ilmatar in Su