
Arvo Pärt
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- September 11, 1935 (age 91)
- Birthplace
- Paide, Järva County, Estonia
Biography
Arvo Pärt (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈɑrʋo ˈpært]; born September 11, 1935) is an Estonian composer of classical and religious music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. His most performed works include Fratres (1977), Spiegel im Spiegel (1978), and Für Alina (1976). From 2011 to 2018, Pärt was the most performed living composer in the world, and the second most performed in 2019. The Arvo Pärt Centre, in Laulasmaa, was opened to the public in 2018. Pärt's music is in part inspired by Gregorian chant.
Known For
Filmography

Kotsuage
Movie · Music

Smoke
Movie · Music

Concerto di Pasqua 2026 - OSN
Movie · Original Music Composer

All This Death
Movie · Music

Birthday Concert for Arvo Pärt The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir with Tõnu Kaljuste
Movie · Original Music Composer

Arvo Pärt: works for choir and string orchestrav @ Lusatian Festival
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Endless - Parts I And II
Movie · Music

Beyond the Homestead
Movie · Music

Peace Project With Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Movie · Original Music Composer

Por la gloria de sus padres
Movie · Songs

Nostalghia - Sui luoghi di Tarkovskij 40 anni dopo
Movie · Music, Additional Soundtrack

Revoir Paris
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Men
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Odessa Classics Tallinn
Movie · Original Music Composer

OSN: Omaggio a Luciano Berio con Magdalena Kožená e Ion Marin
Movie · Original Music Composer

Experience of Goodness
Movie · Music

Birds of Paradise
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

My Name Is Pauli Murray
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Sweet Thing
Movie · Additional Soundtrack, Music

Europakonzert 2020
Movie · Original Music Composer

From Matti with Love
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

A Hidden Life
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Better Days
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Valley of the Rulers
Movie · Music
I am the Human thy God
Movie · Music

Not Even a Gravestone
Movie · Original Music Composer

The Apparition
Movie · Additional Soundtrack, Music

Twenty Two
Movie · Music

Novitiate
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Wildebeest
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Song to Song
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Loveless
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Cracking the Shakespeare Code
Movie · Music

The Good Place
TV · Additional Soundtrack · 1 ep

The Young Pope
TV · Additional Soundtrack · 3 eps

Adam's Passion
Movie · Music

The Master
Movie · Music

Knight of Cups
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

The Club
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Mia Madre
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

The Wait
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Standing Tall
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Avengers: Age of Ultron
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

The Daughter
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

The Way He Looks
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Foxcatcher
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Guapas
TV · Additional Soundtrack · 3 eps

Triptych
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Violette
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

About Time
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

To the Wonder
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Mop King
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

The Place Beyond the Pines
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

The Inner Jungle
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

The Great Beauty
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Six by Sondheim
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Blue Caprice
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

The East
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Childhood Land Siberia
Movie · Music

Singing Women
Movie · Music

Rectify
TV · Additional Soundtrack · 3 eps

Augustine
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

The Letter
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Inescapable
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

The Man Who Laughs
Movie · Additional Soundtrack
Bells of Europe
Movie · Music

This Must Be the Place
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

The Sleeping Beauty of East Finchley
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

We Have a Pope
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Gvido Zvaigzne
Movie · Music

Simple
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

The Secret Life of Chaos
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Into Eternity: A Film for the Future
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher
Movie · Music

The Young Victoria
Movie · Additional Soundtrack
Elegy of Wood
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Hungry Hills
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Elegy
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

The Banishment
Movie · Music

Criminal Justice
TV · Additional Soundtrack · 1 ep

The Unforeseen
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

In Memory of Me
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

There Will Be Blood
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

The War
TV · Additional Soundtrack · 7 eps

Times and Winds
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Huldufólk 102
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Goya's Ghosts
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

The Good Shepherd
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Candy
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

The Buried Forest
Movie · Music

Time to Leave
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

The Giant Buddhas
Movie · Additional Soundtrack, Music

Bang Bang Orangutang
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Phantom Limb
Movie · Music

Numb3rs
TV · Additional Soundtrack · 1 ep

Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution
TV · Additional Soundtrack · 6 eps

Dickens in America
TV · Additional Soundtrack · 1 ep

So You Think You Can Dance
TV · Additional Soundtrack · 1 ep

Supernatural
TV · Additional Soundtrack · 1 ep

Dead Man's Shoes
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Promised Land
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Hawaii, Oslo
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Red Lights
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Fahrenheit 9/11
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Day and Night
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Notre Musique
Movie · Music

After the Day Before
Movie · Music

Japón
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Soldiers of Salamina
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

The Barbarian Invasions
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - R.#07 ROME
Movie · Music

Abandon
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Heaven
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Swept Away
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

In the Darkness of Time
Movie · Music

Gerry
Movie · Original Music Composer

War Photographer
Movie · Original Music Composer, Additional Soundtrack

In Praise of Love
Movie · Music

C'est la vie
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Mostly Martha
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Lauzon Lauzone
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Wit
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Closed Eyes
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

After the Reconciliation
Movie · Music

A Kind of Hush
Movie · Music, Additional Soundtrack

Simons film
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

The Thin Red Line
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Winter Sleepers
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Mother Night
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Johns
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Hamsun
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Two by Dove
Movie · Music

Hiroshima
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Lou Didn’t Say No
Movie · Music

Hail, Sarajevo
Movie · Music
Cage
Movie · Music

Lessons of Darkness
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

The Lovers on the Bridge
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Lest We Forget
Movie · Music

For Thomas Wainggai
Movie · Music

Queen of Hearts
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

Rachel River
Movie · Additional Soundtrack, Original Music Composer

Testament
Movie · Additional Soundtrack

POV
TV · Additional Soundtrack · 1 ep

The Paper Bridge
Movie · Music

Mallorca
Movie · Music

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
Movie · Music

Pilot Pirx's Inquest
Movie · Original Music Composer

Tracks on Snow
Movie · Music

Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Movie · Original Music Composer

Colourful Dreams
Movie · Original Music Composer

Sisters
Movie · Music

Where the Little Stars Grow
Movie · Music

Spring in the Forest
Movie · Original Music Composer

Colored Pencils
Movie · Music

Pallid
Movie · Music

Underwater
Movie · Music

Such Stories
Movie · Music

Üks helin mul helises rinna sees
Movie · Music

Summer Games of Insects
Movie · Music

Inspiration
Movie · Music

Ice State
Movie · Music

Athomic
Movie · Music

Athomic and Stouts
Movie · Music

The White Land of Enderby
Movie · Music

Kips the Operator in the Stone Kingdom
Movie · Music

Stork Chick
Movie · Music

Kips the Operator on a Desert Island
Movie · Music

New Adventures of Kips the Operator
Movie · Music

Mouse Hunt
Movie · Music

The Milkman of Mäeküla
Movie · Original Music Composer

The Last Chimney-Sweep
Movie · Music

Cameraman Kõps in Mushroomland
Movie · Music

Just Like That!
Movie · Music

From Evening Till Morning
Movie · Music

Little Scooter
Movie · Music