Arvo Pärt
11 September 1935 – present
Arvo Pärt (born 1935) is an Estonian composer of classical and sacred music, best known for the minimalist tintinnabuli style he developed in the mid-1970s in works such as Für Alina, Fratres, Tabula Rasa and Spiegel im Spiegel. He emigrated from Soviet Estonia in 1980, lived in Vienna and Berlin, and later returned to Estonia, where the Arvo Pärt Centre opened in 2018.
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Life events
Born in the town of Paide in central Estonia.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgEmployed as a recording engineer at Estonian Radio while pursuing composition studies.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCompleted composition studies under Heino Eller at the Tallinn Conservatory.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgMarried Nora, who became his long-term collaborator and manager of his affairs.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe short piano piece Für Alina introduced the tintinnabuli style after several years of compositional silence.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgSeveral of his most widely performed tintinnabuli works were written within a single year.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgLeft the Soviet Union with his family, settling first in Vienna where he took Austrian citizenship.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRelocated to West Berlin on a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service and lived in Berlin for nearly three decades.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgSettled at Laulasmaa near Tallinn after his years in Germany.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgA purpose-built archive and concert venue dedicated to his work opened in Laulasmaa, Estonia.
Source: en.wikipedia.org