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 & recognition
- Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit · 2024
- Polar Music Prize · 2023
- Officer of the Order of the Oak Crown · 2022
- Ratzinger Prize · 2017
- Austrian Decoration — Science and Art · 2015
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- Praemium Imperiale · 2014
- Coat of Arms of Tallinn · 2011
- Knight of the Legion of Honour · 2011
- honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews · 2010
- Honorary doctor of the University of Liège · 2009
- Léonie Sonning Music Prize · 2008
- Honorary doctor of the University of Fribourg · 2007
- Recipient of the Order of the National Coat of Arms, 1st Class · 2006
- honorary doctor of Durham University · 2003
- Herder Prize · 2000
- Classic Brit Awards
- Golden Medal — Merit to Culture
- honorary doctor of the University of Sydney
- Honorary Member of the International Society — Contemporary Music
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Supernatural
My Name Is Pauli Murray
Better Days
The War
There Will Be Blood
The Good Place
The Way He Looks
About Time
Lessons of Darkness
The Young Pope
Rectify
Criminal Justice
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
Cracking the Shakespeare Code
The Great Beauty
War Photographer
The Thin Red Line
The Lovers on the Bridge
Loveless
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Wit
A Hidden Life
Standing Tall
The Young Victoria
The Banishment
Hamsun
Revoir Paris
Bosch: The Garden of Dreams
Six by Sondheim
Times and Winds
Candy
Dead Man's Shoes
Fahrenheit 9/11
The Barbarian Invasions
Arabian Nights: Volume 1 - The Restless One
The Place Beyond the Pines
This Must Be the Place
Numb3rs
The Club
The Secret Life of Chaos
P.O.V.
We Have a Pope
So You Think You Can Dance
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
Sweet Thing
Foxcatcher
Mostly Martha
My Mother
Goya's Ghosts
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