1935 - Today
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, Arvo Pärt ranks 96 out of 1,216. Before 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.
1863 - 1945
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 90
1791 - 1844
HPI: 69.78
Rank: 91
1760 - 1842
HPI: 69.58
Rank: 92
1836 - 1891
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 93
1566 - 1613
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 94
1561 - 1633
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 95
1935 - Present
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 96
1857 - 1919
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 97
1645 - 1704
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 98
1895 - 1963
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 99
1710 - 1784
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 100
1397 - 1474
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 101
1901 - 1999
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 102
Among people born in 1935, Arvo Pärt ranks 15. Before 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.
1935 - Present
HPI: 71.54
Rank: 9
1935 - 1999
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 10
1935 - Present
HPI: 70.99
Rank: 11
1935 - 2004
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 12
1935 - 2023
HPI: 70.22
Rank: 13
1935 - Present
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 14
1935 - Present
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 15
1935 - 2023
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 16
1935 - Present
HPI: 68.33
Rank: 17
1935 - Present
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 18
1935 - 2012
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 19
1935 - 2003
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 20
1935 - 2018
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 21
Among people born in Estonia, Arvo Pärt ranks 4 out of 310. 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), Konstantin Päts (1874), Wolfgang Köhler (1887), Louis Kahn (1901), Lennart Meri (1929), Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (1929), and Paul Keres (1916).
1684 - 1727
HPI: 78.49
Rank: 1
1893 - 1946
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 2
1804 - 1865
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 3
1935 - Present
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 4
1778 - 1852
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 5
1792 - 1876
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 6
1874 - 1956
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 7
1887 - 1967
HPI: 63.94
Rank: 8
1901 - 1974
HPI: 63.39
Rank: 9
1929 - 2006
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 10
1929 - 2008
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 11
1916 - 1975
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 12
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), Alexei Lvov (1798), Juhan Aavik (1884), Ester Mägi (1922), Artur Kapp (1878), Rudolf Tobias (1873), and Artur Lemba (1885).
1935 - Present
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 1
1900 - 1939
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 2
1930 - 2017
HPI: 52.98
Rank: 3
1905 - 1982
HPI: 52.94
Rank: 4
1887 - 1970
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 5
1922 - 2014
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 6
1798 - 1870
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 7
1884 - 1982
HPI: 50.31
Rank: 8
1922 - 2021
HPI: 50.08
Rank: 9
1878 - 1952
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 10
1873 - 1918
HPI: 48.23
Rank: 11
1885 - 1963
HPI: 46.92
Rank: 12