Arvo Pärt

Arvo Pärt 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. 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.

11 September 1935

Born on the same birth date (11 September 1935): September 11

Born on the same birth day (11 September): Alan Badel • Barry Sheene • Charles Walker (British politician) • Daniel S. Dickinson • Donald Blakeslee • Farrah Moan • John Agrue • Primož Kozak • Renée Geyer • Richard D. Gill • Sudhamoy Pramanick • Valentino Fioravanti

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