The Heino Eller Tartu Music College (Estonian: Heino Elleri nimeline Tartu Muusikakool) is a music school in Tartu, Estonia, founded in 1919. It was originally called Tartu Higher Music School but received its current name in 1971, after the Estonian composer and music teacher Heino Eller, who taught at the school from 1920 until 1940.
Tartu School of Composition
Heino Eller's return to Tartu in 1920, to teach in the Tartu Music School, led to the development in the 1920s–1930s of the Tartu school of composition
In the 1920s, the school was named Tartu Higher Music School (Estonian: Tartu Kõrgem Muusikakool).
Those identified with the school include:
Composers
Heino Eller (originator)
Eduard Tubin
Eduard Oja
Olav Roots
Alfred Karindi
Johannes Bleive
Music theorists
Karl Leichter
Faculty
Salme Kann
Harald Laksberg