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
- All This Death ... (Music)
- Rebel with a Bow Tie as Self (uncredited)
- 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)
- Beyond the Homestead ... (Music)
- The Endless - Parts I And II ... (Music)
- Huldufólk 102 ... (Additional Soundtrack)
2023
- Por la gloria de sus padres ... (Songs)
2022
- Men ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Revoir Paris ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- OSN: Omaggio a Luciano Berio con Magdalena Kožená e Ion Marin ... (Original Music Composer)
- Odessa Classics Tallinn ... (Original Music Composer)
- Nostalghia - Sui luoghi di Tarkovskij 40 anni dopo ... (Music)
2021
- Birds of Paradise ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- My Name Is Pauli Murray ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- 7 Lakes, 7 Lives
- Experience of Goodness ... (Music)
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)
- I am the Human thy God ... (Music)
- That Pärt Feeling as Himself
- From Matti with Love ... (Additional Soundtrack)
2018
- The Apparition ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Not Even a Gravestone ... (Original Music Composer)
- Every Sound a Jewel as Self (Archive)
2017
- Song to Song ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Novitiate ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Loveless ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Voyage of Time: Life's Journey ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Wildebeest ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Twenty Two ... (Music)
2016
- The Good Place ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Young Pope ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Bosch: The Garden of Dreams ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Cracking the Shakespeare Code ... (Music)
2015
- Avengers: Age of Ultron ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Knight of Cups ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Adam's Passion ... (Music)
- The Master ... (Music)
- Standing Tall ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Daughter ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Club ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Mia madre ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Wait ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Maestro
- Arvo Pärt: Even if I lose everything as Himself
- The Lost Paradise as Himself
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)
- The East ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- To the Wonder ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Six by Sondheim ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Blue Caprice ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Violette ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Singing Women ... (Music)
- Childhood Land Siberia ... (Music)
- The Inner Jungle ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Mop King ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Triptych ... (Additional Soundtrack)
2012
- Augustine ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Inescapable ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Man Who Laughs ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Letter ... (Additional Soundtrack)
2011
- This Must Be the Place ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- We Have a Pope ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Gvido Zvaigzne ... (Music)
- Bells of Europe ... (Music)
- The Sleeping Beauty of East Finchley ... (Additional Soundtrack)
2010
- The Secret Life of Chaos ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Into Eternity: A Film for the Future ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Simple ... (Additional Soundtrack)
2009
- The Young Victoria ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Hungry Hills ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Elegy of Wood ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher as Himself
2008
- Criminal Justice ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Elegy ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Banishment ... (Music)
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)
- Time to Leave ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Bang Bang Orangutang ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Dickens in America ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- The Buried Forest ... (Music)
- The Giant Buddhas ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Phantom Limb ... (Additional Soundtrack)
2004
- Dead Man's Shoes ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Fahrenheit 9/11 ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- After the Day Before ... (Music)
- Promised Land ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Red Lights ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Notre Musique ... (Music)
- Day and Night ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Hawaii, Oslo ... (Additional Soundtrack)
2003
- The Barbarian Invasions ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - R.#07 ROME ... (Music)
- Soldiers of Salamina ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Japón ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me ... (Additional Soundtrack)
2002
- Swept Away ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Heaven ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Gerry ... (Music)
- Abandon ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue as Himself
- In the Darkness of Time ... (Music)
2001
- Wit ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Mostly Martha ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- War Photographer ... (Original Music Composer)
- In Praise of Love ... (Music)
- C'est la vie ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- 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)
- Grisha
- Mother Night ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Hamsun ... (Additional Soundtrack)
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
- Goodbye to Cali ... (Additional Music)
- Arvo Pärt: And Then Came the Evening and the Morning as Himself
1989
- Rachel River ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Queen of Hearts ... (Additional Soundtrack)
1988
- Point of View ... (Additional Soundtrack)
- Testament ... (Additional Soundtrack)
1987
- Mallorca ... (Music)
- 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
- Spring in the Forest ... (Original Music Composer)
- Where the Little Stars Grow ... (Music)
- Sisters ... (Music)
1973
- Pallid ... (Music)
- Underwater ... (Music)
- Colored Pencils ... (Music)
- Such Stories ... (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
- Cameraman Kõps in Mushroomland ... (Music)
- The Last Chimney-Sweep ... (Music)
1963
- Just Like That! ... (Music)
1962
- From Evening Till Morning ... (Music)
- Little Scooter ... (Music)