Background
Tamberg, Eino was born on May 27, 1930 in Tallinn.
Tamberg, Eino was born on May 27, 1930 in Tallinn.
He studied music composition with Eugen Kapp at the Tallinn Conservatory, graduating in 1953.
Tamberg was an important initiator of the anti-romantic composition movement of the late 1950s. His vision on music composition belonged to the so-called New Wave in Estonian music He became more known outside Estonia from approximately 1960, writing music for a large variety of genres, but in particular music for theater, and symphonic music
He died in Tallinn.
Tamberg was one of the most important representatives of neoclassicism in Estonian music, though his later works were more expressionistic in style. Since 1969 he was teaching at the Estonian Academy of Music, where he also held a professorship since 1983. Foreign the 1997–1998 season he was composer-in-residence with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra.