Arvo Pärt

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Biography

Estonian composer

  • Aliases
  • Avro Part·Arvo Pärt·A. Pärt·Pärt·Arvo Part
  • Primary profession
  • Soundtrack·composer·music_department
  • Country
  • Estonia
  • Nationality
  • Estonian
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 11 September 1935
  • Place of birth
  • Paide
  • Children
  • Michael Pärt
  • Spouses
  • Nora Pärt
  • Education
  • Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
  • Knows language
  • German language·Estonian language·Russian language
  • Member of
  • American Academy of Arts and Letters·Royal Swedish Academy of Music·Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts·Estonian Academy of Sciences·Pontifical Council for Culture

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Quotes

You can kill people with sound. And if you can kill, then maybe there is also the sound that is opposite of killing. And the distance between these two points is very big. And you are free--you can choose. In art everything is possible, but everything is not necessary.

Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God. .

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