Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt (; 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. 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.
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