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Estonian composer (born 1935)

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Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has created a musical language that mixes post-modernism, spirituality, consonance and beauty.

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Led by Artistic Director Lawrence Cherney and Executive Director Chris Lorway, Soundstreams is a Toronto-based music presenter that commissions, develops, and.

Soundstreams first presented the music of Pärt in 1993.

For the Estonian handballer, see Armi Pärt. For the Estonian music producer, see Michael Pärt.

Arvo Pärt (Estonian pronunciation:[ˈɑrvoˈpært]; born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of contemporary classical music.

Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. Pärt's music is in part inspired by Gregorian chant.

Under the baton of founder Tõnu Kaljuste, the 25-person choir displayed vocal techniques one expects to hear in early-music performances: almost.

His most performed works include Fratres (1977), Spiegel im Spiegel (1978), and Für Alina (1976). From 2011 to 2018, and again in 2022, Pärt was the most performed living composer in the world, and the second most performed in 2019, after John Williams.

The Arvo Pärt Centre, in Laulasmaa, was opened to the public in 2018.

Early life, family and education

Pärt was born in Paide, Järva County, Estonia, and was raised by his mother and stepfather in Rakvere in northern Estonia.^[1] He began to