Arvo Pärt
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A need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower.
— Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue (DVD, 2002)
Arvo Pärt
Estonian composer (born 1935)
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Born 1935 · age 91
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Updated 2026-06-08
The Estonian composer who invented tintinnabuli — a minimalist technique rooted in Gregorian chant — and became the most performed living composer in the world multiple times between 2011 and 2025.
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Arvo Pärt was born 11 September 1935 in Estonia. Since the late 1970s he has worked in the stark minimalist style he created, building pieces from tintinnabuli, a method partly inspired by Gregorian chant. That shift produced Für Alina in 1976, then Fratres in 1977 and Spiegel im Spiegel in 1978 — works that became his most performed. From 2011 to 2018, and again in 2022 and 2025, he held the title of most performed living composer in the world. The Arvo Pärt Centre opened to the public in Laulasmaa in 2018.
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I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played.
— Biographical note
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Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers--in my life, my music, my work.
— Liner notes for Fratres; Biographical note
Arvo Pärt
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The most sensitive musical instrument is the human soul. The next is the human voice. One must purify the soul until it begins to sound.
— Read from his musical diaries while speaking at St. Vladimir’s Seminary
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- Babel2015
- BBC Music, Volume 23, Number 12: Arvo Pärt - A Celebration2015
- New Seasons2015
- Complete Works for Violin and Piano and for Piano Solo2015
- Organ Music / Choral Music2015
- Bach & Contemporary Music2014
- Poème mystique2013
- Konzert für Chor2013
- Bach / Gould / Previn / Pärt2012
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