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Arvo Pärt

1935 - Today

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Arvo Pärt (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈɑrvo ˈpært]; born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of contemporary classical music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. Pärt's music is in part inspired by Gregorian chant. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arvo Pärt has received more than 1,780,420 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Arvo Pärt is the 100th most popular composer (down from 96th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Estonia and the most popular Estonian Composer.

Arvo Pärt is most famous for his tintinnabuli style of composition.

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  • 54

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  • 3.10

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Arvo Pärt ranks 100 out of 1,451. Before him are César Franck, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Léo Delibes, and John Cage. After him are Jacopo Peri, Francis Poulenc, Zoltán Kodály, Adolphe Adam, Paul Hindemith, and Heinrich Schütz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Arvo Pärt ranks 16. Before him are Kenzaburō Ōe, Donald Sutherland, Françoise Sagan, Isao Takahata, Hussein of Jordan, and Michel Aoun. After him are Erich von Däniken, Ágota Kristóf, Julie Andrews, Omar Sívori, Omar Bongo, and Faisal II of Iraq.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Arvo Pärt ranks 4 out of 351. Before him are Catherine I of Russia (1684), Alfred Rosenberg (1893), and Emil Lenz (1804). After him are Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778), Karl Ernst von Baer (1792), Wolfgang Köhler (1887), Konstantin Päts (1874), Lennart Meri (1929), Paul Keres (1916), Louis Kahn (1901), and Arnold Rüütel (1928).

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Among COMPOSERS In Estonia

Among composers born in Estonia, Arvo Pärt ranks 1. After him are Evald Aav (1900), Veljo Tormis (1930), Eduard Tubin (1905), Heino Eller (1887), Käbi Laretei (1922), Juhan Aavik (1884), Alexei Lvov (1798), Artur Kapp (1878), Rudolf Tobias (1873), Ester Mägi (1922), and Knudåge Riisager (1897).

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