Sound · Music · Original Music Composer
Born Dec 12, 1908
Active 1955–1993 · Awards: Stalin Prize, Order of Lenin, Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of the October Revolution, People's Artist of the USSR, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of the Badge of Honour, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Gustav Ernesaks (December 12, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an Estonian composer and a choir conductor. Ernesaks was born in Perila, Peningi Parish.