Arvo Pärt
Born: 1935-09-11 in Paide, Järva County, Estonia
Known For: Sound
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.
Filmography
2026
- Concerto di Pasqua 2026 - OSN ... (Original Music Composer)
2025
- Rebel with a Bow Tie as Self (uncredited)
- All This Death ... (Music)
- Birthday Concert for Arvo Pärt The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir with Tõnu Kaljuste ... (Original Music Composer)
- Arvo Pärt: works for choir and string orchestrav @ Lusatian Festival ... (Original Music Composer)
2024
- Peace Project With Patricia Kopatchinskaja ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Endless - Parts I And II ... (Music)
- Huldufólk 102 ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Beyond the Homestead ... (Music)
2023
- Por la gloria de sus padres ... (Songs)
2022
- Men ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Revoir Paris ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Nostalghia - Sui luoghi di Tarkovskij 40 anni dopo ... (Music)
- Odessa Classics Tallinn ... (Original Music Composer)
2021
- Birds of Paradise ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- My Name Is Pauli Murray ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Experience of Goodness ... (Music)
- 7 Lakes, 7 Lives
2020
- Sweet Thing ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Europakonzert 2020 ... (Original Music Composer)
2019
- Better Days ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- A Hidden Life ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Valley of the Rulers ... (Music)
- From Matti with Love ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- I am the Human thy God ... (Music)
- That Pärt Feeling as Himself
2018
- The Apparition ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Not Even a Gravestone ... (Original Music Composer)
2017
- Song to Song ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Novitiate ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Loveless ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Voyage of Time: Life's Journey ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Twenty Two ... (Music)
- Wildebeest ... (Additional Soundtrack)
2016
- The Good Place ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Young Pope ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Cracking the Shakespeare Code ... (Music)
- Bosch: The Garden of Dreams ... (Additional Soundtrack)
2015
- Avengers: Age of Ultron ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Knight of Cups ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Daughter ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Mia madre ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Club ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Wait ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Standing Tall ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Lost Paradise as Himself
- Maestro
- Arvo Pärt: Even if I lose everything as Himself
- Adam's Passion ... (Music)
- The Master ... (Music)
2014
- Guapas ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Foxcatcher ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Way He Looks ... (Additional Soundtrack)
2013
- About Time ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Rectify ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Place Beyond the Pines ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Great Beauty ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- To the Wonder ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The East ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Six by Sondheim ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Blue Caprice ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Violette ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Triptych ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Mop King ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Singing Women ... (Music)
- The Inner Jungle ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Childhood Land Siberia ... (Music)
2012
- Augustine ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Man Who Laughs ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Inescapable ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Letter ... (Additional Soundtrack)
2011
- We Have a Pope ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- This Must Be the Place ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Sleeping Beauty of East Finchley ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Gvido Zvaigzne ... (Music)
- Bells of Europe ... (Music)
2010
- Into Eternity: A Film for the Future ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Secret Life of Chaos ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Simple ... (Additional Soundtrack)
2009
- The Young Victoria ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Hungry Hills ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher as Himself
- Elegy of Wood ... (Additional Soundtrack)
2008
- Criminal Justice ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Elegy ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Banishment ... (Original Music Composer)
2007
- There Will Be Blood ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The War ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Unforeseen ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- In Memory Of Me ... (Additional Soundtrack)
2006
- The Good Shepherd ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Candy ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Goya's Ghosts ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Times and Winds ... (Additional Soundtrack)
2005
- Supernatural ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Numb3rs ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- So You Think You Can Dance ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Dickens in America ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Buried Forest ... (Music)
- Time to Leave ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Bang Bang Orangutang ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Phantom Limb ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Giant Buddhas ... (Additional Soundtrack)
2004
- Fahrenheit 9/11 ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Dead Man's Shoes ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Notre Musique ... (Music)
- Day and Night ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Hawaii, Oslo ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Promised Land ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Red Lights ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- After the Day Before ... (Music)
2003
- The Barbarian Invasions ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Soldiers of Salamina ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Japón ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - R.#07 ROME ... (Music)
2002
- Swept Away ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Gerry ... (Original Music Composer)
- Heaven ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Abandon ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- In the Darkness of Time ... (Music)
- Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue as Himself
2001
- Wit ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Mostly Martha ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- War Photographer ... (Original Music Composer)
- C'est la vie ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- In Praise of Love ... (Music)
- Lauzon Lauzone ... (Additional Soundtrack)
2000
- After the Reconciliation ... (Music)
- Closed Eyes ... (Additional Soundtrack)
1999
- A Kind of Hush ... (Music)
- Simons film ... (Additional Soundtrack)
1998
- The Thin Red Line ... (Additional Soundtrack)
1997
- Winter Sleepers ... (Additional Soundtrack)
1996
- Johns ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Mother Night ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Hamsun ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Grisha
1995
- Hiroshima ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Two by Dove ... (Music)
1994
- Squanto: A Warrior's Tale ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Lou Didn’t Say No ... (Music)
1993
- Hail, Sarajevo ... (Music)
- Cage ... (Music)
1992
- Lessons of Darkness ... (Additional Soundtrack)
1991
- The Lovers on the Bridge ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Lest We Forget ... (Music)
- For Thomas Wainggai ... (Music)
1990
- Arvo Pärt: And Then Came the Evening and the Morning as Himself
- Goodbye to Cali ... (Additional Music)
1989
- Rachel River ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Queen of Hearts ... (Additional Soundtrack)
1987
- The Paper Bridge ... (Music)
1986
- Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company ... (Music)
1979
- Pilot Pirx's Inquest ... (Original Music Composer)
1978
- Arvo Pärt in November 1978 as Self (uncredited)
- Tracks on Snow ... (Music)
1976
- Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat as Piano Player at the Restaurant
1975
- Colourful Dreams ... (Original Music Composer)
1974
- Sisters ... (Music)
- Spring in the Forest ... (Original Music Composer)
- Täheke ... (Music)
1973
- Underwater ... (Music)
- Colored Pencils ... (Music)
- Such Stories ... (Music)
- Pallid ... (Music)
1972
- Üks helin mul helises rinna sees ... (Music)
1971
- Inspiration ... (Music)
- Summer Games of Insects ... (Music)
1970
- Athomic ... (Music)
- Ice State ... (Music)
- Athomic and Stouts ... (Music)
1969
- The White Land of Enderby ... (Music)
1968
- Kips the Operator in the Stone Kingdom ... (Music)
1967
- Stork Chick ... (Music)
1966
- Kips the Operator on a Desert Island ... (Music)
1965
- The Milkman of Mäeküla ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mouse Hunt ... (Music)
- New Adventures of Kips the Operator ... (Music)
1964
- The Last Chimney-Sweep ... (Music)
- Cameraman Kõps in Mushroomland ... (Music)
1963
- Just Like That! ... (Music)
1962
- From Evening Till Morning ... (Music)
- Little Scooter ... (Music)