Arvo Pärt

Pärt wrote Hymn to a Great City in 1984 as a gift to his friends Mirjam and William Miesse. The name of the city referred to in the title of this miniature is not clear, although it was initially asso...

Beatus Petronius and Statuit ei Dominus were commissioned in 1990 to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the Basilica San Petronio, the principal church of Bologna. San Petronio is one of the few chu...

Listening to Arvo Pärt's newest composition, Litany, is like walking alone in a vast, empty space. A deserted monastery, perhaps. History and stillness hang thick as incense in the air. Light from arc...

Zwei Beter (Two prayers) for female a cappella choir is Arvo Pärt's musical interpretation of St Luke 18, 9- 14 in German. Two prayers: And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselv...

Arvo Pärt received a commission to compose this work from the Agenzia Romana per la preparazione del Giubileo, that was, the body responsible for the organisation of the Holy Year 2000 in Rome. Pärt w...

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Pari intervallo was composed in 1976 on the occasion of the death of a friend and is dedicated to his memory. The basic musical material consists of two parts which move exactly parallel to each other...

Mein Weg was written for organ in 1989. The title was inspired by a short poem from Livre des Questions, the magnum opus of the poet Edmond Jabès, who was born in Cairo and emigrated to France in 1957...

Pärt erreicht die Prägnanz seiner Musik durch ein Minimum an Aufwand: Drei Sänger, begleitet von drei Streichinstrumenten, intonieren den lateinischen Text von Jacopone da Todi (13. Jahrhundert) in ar...

Pärt erreicht die Prägnanz seiner Musik durch ein Minimum an Aufwand: Drei Sänger, begleitet von drei Streichinstrumenten, intonieren den lateinischen Text von Jacopone da Todi (13. Jahrhundert) in ar...

Pärt erreicht die Prägnanz seiner Musik durch ein Minimum an Aufwand: Drei Sänger, begleitet von drei Streichinstrumenten, intonieren den lateinischen Text von Jacopone da Todi (13. Jahrhundert) in ar...

Fratres (original setting for violin and piano) was commissioned by the Salzburg Festival and premiered on August 17th, 1980 at that very place (violin: Gidon Kremer, piano: Elena Kremer). Composed in...

In 1984, ECM brought a new sound into the musical world with the release of Arvo Pärt's 'Tabula rasa', the first album on the label's New Series imprint. Now, on the occasion of Pärt's 75th birthday,...

The collected articles of this book introduce the reader to Arvo Pärt: a composer who - within the last few decades - has become an eminent and unique personality in the music world. > In the course o...

I have developed a highly formalised compositional system, which I have been using to write my music for twenty years. Summa is the most strict and enigmatic work in this series, said Arvo Pärt in 199...

I have developed a highly formalised compositional system, which I have been using to write my music for twenty years. Summa is the most strict and enigmatic work in this series, said Arvo Pärt in 199...