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Arvo Pärt

1935 - Today

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Arvo Pärt (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈɑrʋo 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 1,648,544 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 54 in 2019). Arvo Pärt is the 96th most popular composer (down from 94th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Estonia (down from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Estonian Composer.

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

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Arvo Pärt ranks 96 out of 1,216Before him are Pietro Mascagni, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Luigi Cherubini, Léo Delibes, Carlo Gesualdo, and Jacopo Peri. After him are Ruggero Leoncavallo, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Paul Hindemith, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Guillaume Du Fay, and Joaquín Rodrigo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Arvo Pärt ranks 15Before him are Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Hussein of Jordan, Donald Sutherland, Françoise Sagan, Luis Suárez, and Julie Andrews. After him are Kenzaburō Ōe, Erich von Däniken, Michel Aoun, Theo Angelopoulos, Edward Said, and Isao Takahata.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Arvo Pärt ranks 4 out of 310Before 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), Konstantin Päts (1874), Wolfgang Köhler (1887), Louis Kahn (1901), Lennart Meri (1929), Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (1929), and Paul Keres (1916).

Among COMPOSERS In Estonia

Among composers born in Estonia, Arvo Pärt ranks 1After him are Evald Aav (1900), Veljo Tormis (1930), Eduard Tubin (1905), Heino Eller (1887), Käbi Laretei (1922), Alexei Lvov (1798), Juhan Aavik (1884), Ester Mägi (1922), Artur Kapp (1878), Rudolf Tobias (1873), and Artur Lemba (1885).