Music

Gustav Ernesaks

1908–1993Local figure

Gustav Ernesaks

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  • Commemorated here

    Gustav Ernesaks Memorial

    The memorial portrays the composer and conductor whose “Mu isamaa on minu arm” became a musical emblem of Estonian national survival.

  • Burial place

    Tallinn Forest Cemetery

    The composer of “Mu isamaa on minu arm,” the unofficial anthem of Soviet-era Estonia, is buried here.

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