Arvo Pärt

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-09-11 (90 years old)

Place of Birth

Paide, Estonia

Arvo Pärt

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.

Production

2002

Gerry

as Original Music Composer

2005

2001

War Photographer

as Original Music Composer

2017

Twenty Two

as Music

2011

1970

Ice State

as Music

2018

Not Even a Gravestone

as Original Music Composer

1999

1970

Athomic

as Music

2015

1995

Two by Dove

as Music

2001

1993

2008

The Banishment

as Original Music Composer

2015

The Master

as Music

1989

Queen of Hearts

as Additional Soundtrack

1991

The Lovers on the Bridge

as Additional Soundtrack

1992

Lessons of Darkness

as Additional Soundtrack

1994

Squanto: A Warrior's Tale

as Additional Soundtrack

1995

Hiroshima

as Additional Soundtrack

1996

Hamsun

as Additional Soundtrack

1996

Mother Night

as Additional Soundtrack

1996

Johns

as Additional Soundtrack

1997

Wintersleepers

as Additional Soundtrack

1998

The Thin Red Line

as Additional Soundtrack

1999

A Kind of Hush

as Additional Soundtrack

1999

Simons film

as Additional Soundtrack

2000

Closed Eyes

as Additional Soundtrack

2001

Wit

as Additional Soundtrack

2001

Lauzon Lauzone

as Additional Soundtrack

2001

Mostly Martha

as Additional Soundtrack

2001

C'est la vie

as Additional Soundtrack

2001

War Photographer

as Additional Soundtrack

2003

Japón

as Additional Soundtrack

2002

Heaven

as Additional Soundtrack

2002

Abandon

as Additional Soundtrack

2002

Swept Away

as Additional Soundtrack

2003

Soldiers of Salamina

as Additional Soundtrack

2003

The Barbarian Invasions

as Additional Soundtrack

2004

Red Lights

as Additional Soundtrack

2004

Fahrenheit 9/11

as Additional Soundtrack

2004

Day and Night

as Additional Soundtrack

2004

Dead Man's Shoes

as Additional Soundtrack

2004

Hawaii, Oslo

as Additional Soundtrack

2004

Promised Land

as Additional Soundtrack

2005

Phantom Limb

as Additional Soundtrack

2005

Time to Leave

as Additional Soundtrack

2005

The Giant Buddhas

as Additional Soundtrack

2005

Bang Bang Orangutang

as Additional Soundtrack

2006

Candy

as Additional Soundtrack

2006

Huldufólk 102

as Additional Soundtrack

2006

Times and Winds

as Additional Soundtrack

2006

Goya's Ghosts

as Additional Soundtrack

2006

The Good Shepherd

as Additional Soundtrack

2007

The Unforeseen

as Additional Soundtrack

2007

In Memory of Me

as Additional Soundtrack

2008

The Banishment

as Additional Soundtrack

2008

Elegy

as Additional Soundtrack

2009

The Young Victoria

as Additional Soundtrack

2009

Elegy of Wood

as Additional Soundtrack

2009

Hungry Hills

as Additional Soundtrack

2010

Into Eternity: A Film for the Future

as Additional Soundtrack

2010

The Secret Life of Chaos

as Additional Soundtrack

2010

Simple

as Additional Soundtrack

2011

Eighty Letters

as Additional Soundtrack

2011

We Have a Pope

as Additional Soundtrack

2011

This Must Be the Place

as Additional Soundtrack

2011

The Sleeping Beauty of East Finchley

as Additional Soundtrack

2012

Augustine

as Additional Soundtrack

2013

To the Wonder

as Additional Soundtrack

2013

The Place Beyond the Pines

as Additional Soundtrack

2012

The Man Who Laughs

as Additional Soundtrack

2012

The Letter

as Additional Soundtrack

2012

Inescapable

as Additional Soundtrack

2013

Blue Caprice

as Additional Soundtrack

2013

The East

as Additional Soundtrack

2013

The Great Beauty

as Additional Soundtrack

2013

About Time

as Additional Soundtrack

2013

Violette

as Additional Soundtrack

2013

Triptych

as Additional Soundtrack

2013

Mop King

as Additional Soundtrack

2013

The Inner Jungle

as Additional Soundtrack

2013

Six by Sondheim

as Additional Soundtrack

2014

The Way He Looks

as Additional Soundtrack

2014

Foxcatcher

as Additional Soundtrack

2015

Knight of Cups

as Additional Soundtrack

2015

The Club

as Additional Soundtrack

2015

Avengers: Age of Ultron

as Additional Soundtrack

2015

Mia madre

as Additional Soundtrack

2015

Standing Tall

as Additional Soundtrack

2015

2015

The Daughter

as Additional Soundtrack

2015

The Wait

as Additional Soundtrack

2016

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams

as Additional Soundtrack

2017

Voyage of Time: Life's Journey

as Additional Soundtrack

2017

Novitiate

as Additional Soundtrack

2017

Song to Song

as Additional Soundtrack

2017

Loveless

as Additional Soundtrack

2018

The Apparition

as Additional Soundtrack

2017

Wildebeest

as Additional Soundtrack

2019

A Hidden Life

as Additional Soundtrack

2019

From Matti with Love

as Additional Soundtrack

2019

Better Days

as Additional Soundtrack

2020

Sweet Thing

as Additional Soundtrack

2021

My Name Is Pauli Murray

as Additional Soundtrack

2021

Birds of Paradise

as Additional Soundtrack

2022

Men

as Additional Soundtrack

2022

Revoir Paris

as Additional Soundtrack

2007

There Will Be Blood

as Additional Soundtrack

1988

Rachel River

as Additional Soundtrack

1988

Testament

as Additional Soundtrack

2003

Japón

as Thanks

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Kotsuage

as Music

1987

2018

1979

Pilot Pirx's Inquest

as Original Music Composer

2005

1962

1965

Mouse Hunt

as Music

1973

1974

Sisters

as Music

1974

Täheke

as Music

1990

Goodbye to Cali

as Additional Music

2020

Sweet Thing

as Music

1978

1988

Rachel River

as Original Music Composer

1993

Cage

as Music

2011

2004

-

Smoke

as Music

1973

Pallid

as Music

1973

Underwater

as Music

1975

Colourful Dreams

as Original Music Composer

1965

The Milkman of Mäeküla

as Original Music Composer

1974

Spring in the Forest

as Original Music Composer

1963

1967

Stork Chick

as Music

1970

1973

Such Stories

as Music

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