Arvo Pärt

Sound

Born: 1935-09-11

From: Paide, Järva County, Estonia

Gender: Male

Popularity: 0.3

Also Known As

Arvo Paert

Biography

Arvo Pärt (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈɑrʋo ˈpært]; born September 11, 1935) is an Estonian composer of classical and religious music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. His most performed works include Fratres (1977), Spiegel im Spiegel (1978), and Für Alina (1976). From 2011 to 2018, Pärt was the most performed living composer in the world, and the second most performed in 2019. The Arvo Pärt Centre, in Laulasmaa, was opened to the public in 2018. Pärt's music is in part inspired by Gregorian chant.

Awards & Nominations19 won · 0 nominated

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Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit

2024

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Polar Music Prize

2023

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Officer of the Order of the Oak Crown

2022

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Ratzinger Prize

2017

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Austrian Decoration for Science and Art

2015

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Praemium Imperiale

2014

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Coat of Arms of Tallinn

2011

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Knight of the Legion of Honour

2011

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honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews

2010

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Honorary doctor of the University of Liège

2009

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Léonie Sonning Music Prize

2008

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Honorary doctor of the University of Fribourg

2007

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Recipient of the Order of the National Coat of Arms, 1st Class

2006

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honorary doctor of Durham University

2003

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Herder Prize

2000

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Honorary Member of the International Society for Contemporary Music

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Golden Medal for Merit to Culture

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Classic Brit Awards

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honorary doctor of the University of Sydney

Arvo Pärt

Also Known As

Biography

Awards & Nominations19 won · 0 nominated

Acting12 titles

Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue

That Pärt Feeling

Grisha

Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher

Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Arvo Pärt: And Then Came the Evening and the Morning

7 Lakes, 7 Lives

The Lost Paradise

Arvo Pärt: Even if I lose everything

Maestro

Arvo Pärt in November 1978

Rebel with a Bow Tie

Sound176 titles

A Kind of Hush

Closed Eyes

Pallid

Underwater

Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me

Two by Dove

Just Like That!

Inspiration

Adam's Passion

Hiroshima

Supernatural

My Name Is Pauli Murray

Better Days

There Will Be Blood

The War

Little Scooter

New Adventures of Kips the Operator

Kips the Operator on a Desert Island

Kips the Operator in the Stone Kingdom

Summer Games of Insects

Athomic and Stouts

The Good Place

Lessons of Darkness

About Time

The Way He Looks

Twenty Two

Mouse Hunt

The Young Pope

Rectify

Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution

Criminal Justice

War Photographer

The Great Beauty

Cracking the Shakespeare Code

In the Darkness of Time

Lou Didn’t Say No

The Lovers on the Bridge

The Thin Red Line

Wit

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Loveless

Rachel River

The Paper Bridge

Cameraman Kõps in Mushroomland

Hamsun

The Giant Buddhas

The Young Victoria

Into Eternity: A Film for the Future

Standing Tall

A Hidden Life

The Banishment

C'est la vie

The Barbarian Invasions

Fahrenheit 9/11

Dead Man's Shoes

Phantom Limb

Candy

Times and Winds

Six by Sondheim

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams

Revoir Paris

After the Reconciliation