Arvo Pärt (born 11 September 1935 in Paide, Estonia), (IPA: [ˈɑr̺vɔ ˈpær̺t]) is Estonia's most renowned composer, working in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabulation and hypnotic repetitions that is also influenced by the intellectual counterpoint elements of European jazz, but fits a European-American post-modernism rather than an example of so-called world music.
Continuing struggles with Soviet officials led him to emigrate in 1980 with his wife and their two sons. Pärt lived first in Vienna, Austria, where he took Austrian citizenship, and then he re-located to Berlin, Germany where he still lives.
www.arvopart.info
2 comments:
this is wonderful - i'm sorry you are not posting anymore - i wish you were and i hope that you get this!
john...
no updates to be expected?
that's sad. i just found this blog.
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