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Marje Sink (born Marie Gildemann, * 18 October 1910 near Saint Petersburg; † 31 December 1979 in Tallinn) was an Estonian composer.

Life

Sink’s father Mihkel Gildemann came to Russia as cantor and schoolmaster of an Estonian parish. He died in the midst of the revolutionary turmoil in 1918. His widow managed to return to Estonia in 1921 with five surviving children. There she placed Marie in the children’s home of Aaspere, where she composed music and directed a choir at the age of fourteen.

In 1930 Marie married the pastor and lyricist Peeter Sink. She attended Artur Kapp’s composition class at the Tallinn Conservatory, graduating in 1938 with an oratorio and a piano sonata as her thesis. In 1944 she became a member of the Estonian Composers’ Union, from which she was expelled four years later after refusing to compose hymns of praise for Stalin. She then gave music lessons privately and at schools.

Sink worked as a church musician until a stroke in 1972. Most of her compositions were written for the church choirs she directed. In addition, she composed hundreds of songs (including some based on texts by her husband), duets, several cantatas, an Estonian Rhapsody for piano and other piano works. Her youngest son Kuldar Sink also became known as a composer.

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