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

A Hidden Life ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Better Days ... (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)
Loveless ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Novitiate ... (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)
Standing Tall ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The Club ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The Daughter ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Mia Madre ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The Wait ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The Master ... (Music)
Adam's Passion ... (Music)
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)
To the Wonder ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The Great Beauty ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The East ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Blue Caprice ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Six by Sondheim ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Violette ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Singing Women ... (Music)
Childhood Land Siberia ... (Music)
Triptych ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The Inner Jungle ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Mop King ... (Additional Soundtrack)

2012

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

2011

This Must Be the Place ... (Additional Soundtrack)
We Have a Pope ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Gvido Zvaigzne ... (Music)
The Sleeping Beauty of East Finchley ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Bells of Europe ... (Music)

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)
Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher as Himself
Elegy of Wood ... (Additional Soundtrack)

2008

Criminal Justice ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Elegy ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The Banishment ... (Music)

2007

There Will Be Blood ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The War ... (Additional Soundtrack)
In Memory of Me ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The Unforeseen ... (Additional Soundtrack)

2006

The Good Shepherd ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Goya's Ghosts ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Candy ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Times and Winds ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Huldufólk 102 ... (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)
Phantom Limb ... (Music)
Dickens in America ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The Buried Forest ... (Music)
Bang Bang Orangutang ... (Additional Soundtrack)
The Giant Buddhas ... (Additional Soundtrack)

2004

Fahrenheit 9/11 ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Dead Man's Shoes ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Promised Land ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Notre Musique ... (Music)
Red Lights ... (Additional Soundtrack)
After the Day Before ... (Music)
Day and Night ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Hawaii, Oslo ... (Additional Soundtrack)

2003

The Barbarian Invasions ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Soldiers of Salamina ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Japón ... (Additional Soundtrack)
TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - R.#07 ROME ... (Music)

2002

Swept Away ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Heaven ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Abandon ... (Additional Soundtrack)
Gerry ... (Original Music Composer)
In the Darkness of Time ... (Music)
Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue as Himself

2001

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

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)

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

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)
Sisters ... (Music)
Where the Little Stars Grow ... (Music)

1973

Underwater ... (Music)
Pallid ... (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)