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)

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)
Every Sound a Jewel as Self (Archive)
Not Even a Gravestone ... (Original Music Composer)

2017

Novitiate ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Song to Song ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Loveless ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Wildebeest ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey ... (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)
Standing Tall ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Maestro
Mia madre ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Adam's Passion ... (Music)
The Club ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The Daughter ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The Master ... (Music)
The Wait ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The Lost Paradise as Himself
Arvo Pärt: Even if I lose everything 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)
To the Wonder ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Six by Sondheim ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The East ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Singing Women ... (Music)
Violette ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Blue Caprice ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The Inner Jungle ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Childhood Land Siberia ... (Music)
Mop King ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Triptych ... (Additional Soundtrack)

2012

Augustine ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The Letter ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The Man Who Laughs ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Inescapable ... (Additional Soundtrack)

2011

This Must Be the Place ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Gvido Zvaigzne ... (Music)
We Have a Pope ... (Additional Soundtrack)
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)
Bang Bang Orangutang ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Time to Leave ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Phantom Limb ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The Buried Forest ... (Music)
Dickens in America ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The Giant Buddhas ... (Additional Soundtrack)

2004

After the Day Before ... (Music)
Fahrenheit 9/11 ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Dead Man's Shoes ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Notre Musique ... (Music)
Red Lights ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Hawaii, Oslo ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Day and Night ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Promised Land ... (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)
Abandon ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Gerry ... (Music)
Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue as Himself
In the Darkness of Time ... (Music)

2001

Wit ... (Additional Soundtrack)
War Photographer ... (Original Music Composer)
Mostly Martha ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Lauzon Lauzone ... (Additional Soundtrack)
In Praise of Love ... (Music)
C'est la vie ... (Additional Soundtrack)

2000

After the Reconciliation ... (Music)
Closed Eyes ... (Additional Soundtrack)

1999

Simons film ... (Additional Soundtrack)
A Kind of Hush ... (Music)

1998

The Thin Red Line ... (Additional Soundtrack)

1997

Winter Sleepers ... (Additional Soundtrack)

1996

Grisha
Mother Night ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Johns ... (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)
For Thomas Wainggai ... (Music)
Lest We Forget ... (Music)

1990

Goodbye to Cali ... (Additional Music)
Arvo Pärt: And Then Came the Evening and the Morning as Himself

1989

Queen of Hearts ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Rachel River ... (Additional Soundtrack)

1988

POV ... (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

Tracks on Snow ... (Music)
Arvo Pärt in November 1978 as Self (uncredited)

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

The Last Chimney-Sweep ... (Music)
Cameraman Kõps in Mushroomland ... (Music)

1963

Just Like That! ... (Music)

1962

Little Scooter ... (Music)
From Evening Till Morning ... (Music)