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Tõnu Sepp

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Tõnu Sepp with pupils of his studio

Tõnu Sepp (born June 14, 1946) is an Estonian music teacher and a figure in early music. He has been called the "grand old man" of early music in Estonia.[1]

In the 1970s, Sepp founded in Viljandi the first early music ensemble in Estonia. He also laid the ground for early music education in Estonia, and launched the internationally famous Viljandi Early Music Festival.[2] Since 1995, his led masters' class in Tallinn Old Town Educational College has grown into studio Musica Silentii.[3] The studio is active in Tartu since 2006.[2]

Sepp is also a renowned maker of musical instruments, having made hundreds of early music instruments.[3]

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