The Heino Eller Tartu Music College is a music school in Tartu, Estonia, founded in 1919.^[1] It got its current name in 1971, after the Estonian composer and music teacher Heino Eller, who taught at the school from 1920 until 1940.^[1]

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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^[2]

In the 1920s, the school was named Tartu Higher Music School (Estonian: Tartu Kõrgem Muusikakool).^[1]

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

• Tubin Hall
• Eller Hall
• Cafe Heller
• Sound recording studio
• Phonics studio
• The class of percussion instruments
• Dance studio