Hillar Saha
November 29, 1899 Tallinn – November 12, 1981 TallinnMember of the Estonian Academic Music Society since 1932
Member of the Estonian Composers' Union (1944–1948)
Hillar Saha (until 1939 Hilarius Sakaria, also Sakarias) was a musicologist and composer. He studied chemistry at Petrograd University in 1917–1918 and graduated from the Tallinn Conservatory in 1931 majoring in organ (in August Topman's class) and composition (in Artur Kapp's class).
After self-learning of the Esperanto language, he received a diploma from the Finnish Esperanto Institute in 1922 and was one of the founders of the Estonian Esperanto Institute in 1925. As an ardent promoter of Esperanto, his vocal music also include several works in Esperanto.
Saha worked as a researcher and chief treasurer at the Estonian Theatre and Music Museum (1944–1947) and as a researcher at the Tallinn City Museum (1947–1981).
He has written cantatas, choral and solo songs, organ, violin and piano pieces and published dozens of articles in newspapers, magazines and collections.
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