Kaljo Raid

Kaljo Raid (4 March 1921 – 21 January 2005) was an Estonian composer, cellist and pastor.

He was born in Tallinn. One of three children, he had an older brother and a twin sister. He studied composition at Tallinn Conservatory under Heino Eller. His Symphony No. 1 was performed in 1944, the year of his graduation. He studied theology in Stockholm from 1945 to 1946 and then at the Andover Newton Th… More