Jüri Mandre papers

January 28, 1907 (Tartu, Estonia) – November 28, 1970 (Baltimore, MD USA). First wife: Eleonore Ise; second wife: Lucie (nee Niilus); stepdaughter: Juta. Graduated from Hugo Treffner Gymnasium in 1925, studied agriculture at the University of Tartu but did not graduate. Member of academic corporation Rotalia. Worked at the Vanemuine Theater as a repetiteur, was also active as a composer. Mandre fled to Germany in 1944 and lived in the Haunstetten refugee camp in Augsburg. There he worked as a music teacher at the Estonian Gymnasium. He composed music for several plays and shows, working with Estonian playwrights in refugee camps. Emigrated to the US in 1951. Member of the Baltimore Estonian Society (Baltimore Eesti Selts), organist at the St. Mark Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Baltimore (EELK Baltimore Markuse kogudus), founding member of Baltimore Estonian Men's Choir (Baltimore Eesti Laulumehed). Has composed mainly solo and choral works, music for plays and films. In 1968 he composed the score for a musical play based on a well-known Estonian novel ’Toomas Nipernaadi’, which was performed in New York. The Mandre-Sööt Music Memorial Fund (Jüri Mandre Muusikafond) was founded after his death to collect, publish and promote his music.