Ida Loo-Talvari was born is Narva, Estonia. She was the second child of Juhan Loo and Helene Rosalie Katlasepp. Her elder brother was a famous librettist Voldemar Loo. She was studied in Berlin, Milan and Vienna. Her first husband was Evald Aav, an Estonian composer. The couple were married between 1926 and 1937. In 1938 she married Johannes Talvari. In 1944, following the Soviet re-occupation of Estonia, she fled to Sweden. She died in 1997 near Gothenburg, aged 96.
