Arvo Pärt
Advertisement
Advertisement
Top Related Artists
Biography
Celebrated as one of the greatest contemporary composers, Arvo Pärt (b. 1935, Estonia) got off to a rocky start under Communist rule. Winner of the 1963 USSR Young Composers' Competition, the neoclassical-influenced musician went through various phases (dodecaphonism, serialism, collages), creating controversy with his religiously-inspired Credo and Symphony No. 3. Despite censorship, he pursued his research and developed a style that he himself called "tintinnabuli" for the play of bells in his compositions. The series of medieval-inspired works Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, Fratres, Tabula Rasa and Spiegel im Spiegel saw the light of day between 1977 and 1978. Exiled to Vienna and then Berlin, Arvo Pärt is published by ECM, which releases his works such as Passio and Te Deum. Arvo Pärt's growing reputation reached out to fans of new age and minimalist music. In the 2000s, the composer returned to Estonia and continued to enrich a body of work played around the world with The Deers Cry and Symphony No. 4 (2008), followed by Adam's Lament (2012).
Read All
Read Less
Albums
Top Tracks
- Track Popularity
- Jõuluvana * Santa Claus
- Las vihistab * Let the Snow Swish
- Jaaniussi laul * Firefly´s Song
- Nukul pole nime * The Doll Has No Name
- Memme musi * Mommy´s Kiss
- Tere, raamat! * The Book
- Koolitee * Road to School
- Okasroosike * Sleeping Beauty
- Väike motoroller * The Little Motor-Scooter
- Aatomiku laul * The Song of Atom-Boy
- Suvine valss * Summer Waltz
- Pärt: De Profundis
- Tabula rasa~2. Silentium by Arvo Pärt
- Nunc dimittis
- The Woman with the Alabaster Box
- Pari intervallo
- Ein Wallfahrtslied
- Adducunt ergo Jesum a Caipha in praetorium... (Jesus is judged by Pilate and reviled by the people)
- Te Deum
- Fratres for Violin, String Orchestra and Percussion
- Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem... (Jesus is betrayed and arrested in Gethsemane)
- Mina olen juba suur (Käin juba lasteaias) * I Am Already Big
- Silouans Song
- Lepatriinu laul * Ladybird´s Song
