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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-09-11 (89 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.

Known For

Sound

2022

Men as Additional Soundtrack
Revoir Paris as Additional Soundtrack

2021

My Name Is Pauli Murray as Additional Soundtrack
Birds of Paradise as Additional Soundtrack

2020

Sweet Thing as Additional Soundtrack
Sweet Thing as Music

2019

A Hidden Life as Additional Soundtrack
From Matti with Love as Additional Soundtrack
Better Days as Additional Soundtrack

2018

Not Even a Gravestone as Original Music Composer
The Apparition as Additional Soundtrack

2017

Twenty Two as Music
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey as Additional Soundtrack
Novitiate as Additional Soundtrack
Song to Song as Additional Soundtrack
Loveless as Additional Soundtrack
Wildebeest as Additional Soundtrack

2016

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams as Additional Soundtrack
The Young Pope as Additional Soundtrack
The Good Place as Additional Soundtrack

2015

The Master as Music
Knight of Cups as Additional Soundtrack
The Club as Additional Soundtrack
Avengers: Age of Ultron as Additional Soundtrack
Mia madre as Additional Soundtrack
Standing Tall as Additional Soundtrack
The Daughter as Additional Soundtrack
The Wait as Additional Soundtrack

2014

The Way He Looks as Additional Soundtrack
Foxcatcher as Additional Soundtrack
The Crimson Field as Additional Soundtrack
Guapas as Additional Soundtrack

2013

To the Wonder as Additional Soundtrack
The Place Beyond the Pines as Additional Soundtrack
Blue Caprice as Additional Soundtrack
The East as Additional Soundtrack
The Great Beauty as Additional Soundtrack
About Time as Additional Soundtrack
Violette as Additional Soundtrack
Triptych as Additional Soundtrack
Mop King as Additional Soundtrack
The Inner Jungle as Additional Soundtrack
Six by Sondheim as Additional Soundtrack
Rectify as Additional Soundtrack

2012

Augustine as Additional Soundtrack
The Man Who Laughs as Additional Soundtrack
The Letter as Additional Soundtrack
Inescapable as Additional Soundtrack

2011

Eighty Letters as Additional Soundtrack
We Have a Pope as Additional Soundtrack
This Must Be the Place as Additional Soundtrack
The Sleeping Beauty of East Finchley as Additional Soundtrack

2010

Into Eternity: A Film for the Future as Additional Soundtrack
The Secret Life of Chaos as Additional Soundtrack
White Snow as Additional Soundtrack
Simple as Additional Soundtrack

2009

The Young Victoria as Additional Soundtrack
Elegy of Wood as Additional Soundtrack
Hungry Hills as Additional Soundtrack

2008

The Banishment as Original Music Composer
The Banishment as Additional Soundtrack
Elegy as Additional Soundtrack
The War as Additional Soundtrack
Criminal Justice as Additional Soundtrack

2007

The Unforeseen as Additional Soundtrack
In Memory of Me as Additional Soundtrack
There Will Be Blood as Additional Soundtrack

2006

Candy as Additional Soundtrack
Huldufólk 102 as Additional Soundtrack
Times and Winds as Additional Soundtrack
Goya's Ghosts as Additional Soundtrack
The Good Shepherd as Additional Soundtrack

2005

Phantom Limb as Additional Soundtrack
Time to Leave as Additional Soundtrack
The Giant Buddhas as Additional Soundtrack
Bang Bang Orangutang as Additional Soundtrack
Dickens in America as Additional Soundtrack
Supernatural as Additional Soundtrack
Numb3rs as Additional Soundtrack
So You Think You Can Dance as Additional Soundtrack

2004

Red Lights as Additional Soundtrack
Fahrenheit 9/11 as Additional Soundtrack
Day and Night as Additional Soundtrack
Dead Man's Shoes as Additional Soundtrack
Hawaii, Oslo as Additional Soundtrack
Promised Land as Additional Soundtrack
Notre Musique as Music

2003

Japón as Additional Soundtrack
Soldiers of Salamina as Additional Soundtrack
The Barbarian Invasions as Additional Soundtrack

2002

Gerry as Original Music Composer
Heaven as Additional Soundtrack
Abandon as Additional Soundtrack
Swept Away as Additional Soundtrack

2001

War Photographer as Original Music Composer
Wit as Additional Soundtrack
Lauzon Lauzone as Additional Soundtrack
Mostly Martha as Additional Soundtrack
C'est la vie as Additional Soundtrack
War Photographer as Additional Soundtrack

2000

Closed Eyes as Additional Soundtrack

1999

A Kind of Hush as Additional Soundtrack
Simons film as Additional Soundtrack

1998

The Thin Red Line as Additional Soundtrack

1997

Wintersleepers as Additional Soundtrack

1996

Hamsun as Additional Soundtrack
Mother Night as Additional Soundtrack
Johns as Additional Soundtrack

1995

Two by Dove as Music
Hiroshima as Additional Soundtrack

1994

Squanto: A Warrior's Tale as Additional Soundtrack

1993

Cage as Music

1992

Lessons of Darkness as Additional Soundtrack

1991

The Lovers on the Bridge as Additional Soundtrack

1989

Queen of Hearts as Additional Soundtrack

1988

Rachel River as Additional Soundtrack
Testament as Additional Soundtrack
Rachel River as Original Music Composer
POV as Additional Soundtrack

1987

1979

Pilot Pirx's Inquest as Original Music Composer

1978

1975

Colourful Dreams as Original Music Composer

1974

Sisters as Music
Täheke as Music
Spring in the Forest as Original Music Composer

1973

Pallid as Music
Underwater as Music

1970

Ice State as Music
Athomic as Music

1967

Stork Chick as Music

1965

1963

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Kotsuage as Music
Smoke as Music

Crew

2003

Japón as Thanks

1990

Goodbye to Cali as Additional Music