Ester Mägi
Ester Mägi (10 January 1922 – 14 May 2021) was an Estonian composer. She has been called the "first lady of Estonian music."
Ester Mägi
- Born
- 1922 · Tallinn.
- Died
- 2021
- Nationality
- Soviet Union · Estonia
- Occupation
- composer · music educator · university teacher
- Fields
- classical music
- Education
- Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre · Moscow Conservatory
- Teachers
- Mart Saar · Erika Franz
- Honours
- Order of the National Coat of Arms and 5th Class
- Languages
- Estonian · Russian
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Ester Mägi (10 January 1922 – 14 May 2021) was an Estonian composer. She has been called the "first lady of Estonian music."
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Note VALÉORINE
No house-authored Note is published until its assertions and sources pass the VALÉORINE evidence contract. The documentary article remains available in full while that enrichment is being consolidated.
Documentary enrichment in progress · no unsupported statement published
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Ester Mägi. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Evidence Panel
wikipedia incomplete · checked 25 September 2026
- Identity
- resolved
- Independent source families
- 0
- Admitted assertions
- 0
- Open conflicts
- 0
Authority files
wikidata · Q509461 · wikipedia · Ester Mägi
In this article
Education
Education
Ester Mägi studied at Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and Moscow Conservatory. Training under Mart Saar and Erika Franz is recorded. The recorded working language is Estonian and Russian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical music. Employment is recorded with Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Distinctions recorded are Order of the National Coat of Arms, 5th Class.
She trained under Mart Saar at the Tallinn Conservatoire, then from 1951 to 1954 at the Moscow Conservatory under Vissarion Shebalin.
Career
Career
Her compositional output ranged from chamber and vocal music to choral and symphonic works. Amongst her best-known works are her Piano Sonata (1949); Piano Trio in F minor (1950); Piano Concerto (1953); Violin Concerto (1958); Symphony (1968); Variations for Piano, Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra (1972); Bukoolika for orchestra (1983); and Vesper for violin and piano or organ (1990, arranged for strings in 1998). Much of her work was inspired by Estonian folk music. She taught music theory at the Tallinn Conservatoire until her retirement in 1984. In 1999 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Estonian Academy of Music.
Death
Death
Mägi died in May 2021 at the age of 99.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1922
Ester Mägi born at Tallinn.
2021
Ester Mägi died.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Wikidata, structured authority record Q509461: Ester MägiWikimedia Foundation
Partially resolvedreference work
Partially resolved
Further particulars
Held on the record
Further particulars
Open the remaining particulars
Formation and teaching. Mägi studied at Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and Moscow Conservatory. She trained under Mart Saar and Erika Franz. Recorded as having received Order of the National Coat of Arms, 5th Class.
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Music memorabilia
42,307 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Esteban JordanPerson
- Esteban Salas y CastroPerson
- Estelle AsmodellePerson
- Estelle AxtonPerson
- Ester RadaPerson
- Estêvão de BritoPerson
- Estêvão Lopes MoragoPerson
- Esther BejaranoPerson
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Ester Mägi?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.