Arvo Pärt

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

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Kotsuage poster

Kotsuage

Movie · Music

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Smoke poster

Smoke

Movie · Music

2026
Concerto di Pasqua 2026 - OSN poster

Concerto di Pasqua 2026 - OSN

Movie · Original Music Composer

2025
All This Death poster

All This Death

Movie · Music

2025
Birthday Concert for Arvo Pärt The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir with Tõnu Kaljuste poster

Birthday Concert for Arvo Pärt The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir with Tõnu Kaljuste

Movie · Original Music Composer

2025
Arvo Pärt: works for choir and string orchestrav @ Lusatian Festival poster

Arvo Pärt: works for choir and string orchestrav @ Lusatian Festival

Movie · Original Music Composer

2024
The Endless - Parts I And II

The Endless - Parts I And II

Movie · Music

2024
Beyond the Homestead poster

Beyond the Homestead

Movie · Music

2024
Peace Project With Patricia Kopatchinskaja poster

Peace Project With Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Movie · Original Music Composer

2023
Por la gloria de sus padres poster

Por la gloria de sus padres

Movie · Songs

2022
Nostalghia - Sui luoghi di Tarkovskij 40 anni dopo poster

Nostalghia - Sui luoghi di Tarkovskij 40 anni dopo

Movie · Music, Additional Soundtrack

2022
Revoir Paris poster

Revoir Paris

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2022
Men poster

Men

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2022
Odessa Classics Tallinn poster

Odessa Classics Tallinn

Movie · Original Music Composer

2022
OSN: Omaggio a Luciano Berio con Magdalena Kožená e Ion Marin poster

OSN: Omaggio a Luciano Berio con Magdalena Kožená e Ion Marin

Movie · Original Music Composer

2021
Experience of Goodness poster

Experience of Goodness

Movie · Music

2021
Birds of Paradise poster

Birds of Paradise

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2021
My Name Is Pauli Murray poster

My Name Is Pauli Murray

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2020
Sweet Thing poster

Sweet Thing

Movie · Additional Soundtrack, Music

2020
Europakonzert 2020 poster

Europakonzert 2020

Movie · Original Music Composer

2019
From Matti with Love poster

From Matti with Love

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2019
A Hidden Life poster

A Hidden Life

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2019
Better Days poster

Better Days

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2019
Valley of the Rulers poster

Valley of the Rulers

Movie · Music

2019
I am the Human thy God

I am the Human thy God

Movie · Music

2018
Not Even a Gravestone poster

Not Even a Gravestone

Movie · Original Music Composer

2018
The Apparition poster

The Apparition

Movie · Additional Soundtrack, Music

2017
Twenty Two poster

Twenty Two

Movie · Music

2017
Novitiate poster

Novitiate

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2017
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey poster

Voyage of Time: Life's Journey

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2017
Wildebeest poster

Wildebeest

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2017
Song to Song poster

Song to Song

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2017
Loveless poster

Loveless

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2016
Bosch: The Garden of Dreams poster

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2016
Cracking the Shakespeare Code poster

Cracking the Shakespeare Code

Movie · Music

2016
The Good Place poster

The Good Place

TV · Additional Soundtrack · 1 ep

2016
The Young Pope poster

The Young Pope

TV · Additional Soundtrack · 3 eps

2015
Adam's Passion poster

Adam's Passion

Movie · Music

2015
The Master poster

The Master

Movie · Music

2015
Knight of Cups poster

Knight of Cups

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2015
The Club poster

The Club

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2015
Mia Madre poster

Mia Madre

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2015
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One poster

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2015
The Wait poster

The Wait

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2015
Standing Tall poster

Standing Tall

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2015
Avengers: Age of Ultron poster

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2015
The Daughter poster

The Daughter

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2014
The Way He Looks poster

The Way He Looks

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2014
Foxcatcher poster

Foxcatcher

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2014
Guapas poster

Guapas

TV · Additional Soundtrack · 3 eps

2013
Triptych poster

Triptych

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2013
Violette poster

Violette

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2013
About Time poster

About Time

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2013
To the Wonder poster

To the Wonder

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2013
Mop King poster

Mop King

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2013
The Place Beyond the Pines poster

The Place Beyond the Pines

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2013
The Inner Jungle poster

The Inner Jungle

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2013
The Great Beauty poster

The Great Beauty

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2013
Six by Sondheim poster

Six by Sondheim

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2013
Blue Caprice poster

Blue Caprice

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2013
The East poster

The East

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2013
Childhood Land Siberia poster

Childhood Land Siberia

Movie · Music

2013
Singing Women poster

Singing Women

Movie · Music

2013
Rectify poster

Rectify

TV · Additional Soundtrack · 3 eps

2012
Augustine poster

Augustine

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2012
The Letter poster

The Letter

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2012
Inescapable poster

Inescapable

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2012
The Man Who Laughs poster

The Man Who Laughs

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2011
Bells of Europe

Bells of Europe

Movie · Music

2011
This Must Be the Place poster

This Must Be the Place

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2011
The Sleeping Beauty of East Finchley poster

The Sleeping Beauty of East Finchley

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2011
We Have a Pope poster

We Have a Pope

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2011
Gvido Zvaigzne poster

Gvido Zvaigzne

Movie · Music

2010
Simple poster

Simple

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2010
The Secret Life of Chaos poster

The Secret Life of Chaos

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2010
Into Eternity: A Film for the Future poster

Into Eternity: A Film for the Future

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2009
Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher poster

Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher

Movie · Music

2009
The Young Victoria poster

The Young Victoria

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2009
Elegy of Wood

Elegy of Wood

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2009
Hungry Hills poster

Hungry Hills

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2008
Elegy poster

Elegy

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2008
The Banishment poster

The Banishment

Movie · Music

2008
Criminal Justice poster

Criminal Justice

TV · Additional Soundtrack · 1 ep

2007
The Unforeseen poster

The Unforeseen

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2007
In Memory of Me poster

In Memory of Me

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2007
There Will Be Blood poster

There Will Be Blood

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2007
The War poster

The War

TV · Additional Soundtrack · 7 eps

2006
Times and Winds poster

Times and Winds

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2006
Huldufólk 102 poster

Huldufólk 102

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2006
Goya's Ghosts poster

Goya's Ghosts

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2006
The Good Shepherd poster

The Good Shepherd

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2006
Candy poster

Candy

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2005
The Buried Forest poster

The Buried Forest

Movie · Music

2005
Time to Leave poster

Time to Leave

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2005
The Giant Buddhas poster

The Giant Buddhas

Movie · Additional Soundtrack, Music

2005
Bang Bang Orangutang poster

Bang Bang Orangutang

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2005
Phantom Limb poster

Phantom Limb

Movie · Music

2005
Numb3rs poster

Numb3rs

TV · Additional Soundtrack · 1 ep

2005
Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution poster

Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution

TV · Additional Soundtrack · 6 eps

2005
Dickens in America poster

Dickens in America

TV · Additional Soundtrack · 1 ep

2005
So You Think You Can Dance poster

So You Think You Can Dance

TV · Additional Soundtrack · 1 ep

2005
Supernatural poster

Supernatural

TV · Additional Soundtrack · 1 ep

2004
Dead Man's Shoes poster

Dead Man's Shoes

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2004
Promised Land poster

Promised Land

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2004
Hawaii, Oslo poster

Hawaii, Oslo

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2004
Red Lights poster

Red Lights

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2004
Fahrenheit 9/11 poster

Fahrenheit 9/11

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2004
Day and Night poster

Day and Night

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2004
Notre Musique poster

Notre Musique

Movie · Music

2004
After the Day Before poster

After the Day Before

Movie · Music

2003
Japón poster

Japón

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2003
Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me poster

Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2003
Soldiers of Salamina poster

Soldiers of Salamina

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2003
The Barbarian Invasions poster

The Barbarian Invasions

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2003
TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - R.#07 ROME poster

TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - R.#07 ROME

Movie · Music

2002
Abandon poster

Abandon

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2002
Heaven poster

Heaven

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2002
Swept Away poster

Swept Away

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2002
In the Darkness of Time poster

In the Darkness of Time

Movie · Music

2002
Gerry poster

Gerry

Movie · Original Music Composer

2001
War Photographer poster

War Photographer

Movie · Original Music Composer, Additional Soundtrack

2001
In Praise of Love poster

In Praise of Love

Movie · Music

2001
C'est la vie poster

C'est la vie

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2001
Mostly Martha poster

Mostly Martha

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2001
Lauzon Lauzone poster

Lauzon Lauzone

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2001
Wit poster

Wit

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2000
Closed Eyes poster

Closed Eyes

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

2000
After the Reconciliation poster

After the Reconciliation

Movie · Music

1999
A Kind of Hush poster

A Kind of Hush

Movie · Music, Additional Soundtrack

1999
Simons film poster

Simons film

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

1998
The Thin Red Line poster

The Thin Red Line

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

1997
Winter Sleepers poster

Winter Sleepers

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

1996
Mother Night poster

Mother Night

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

1996
Johns poster

Johns

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

1996
Hamsun poster

Hamsun

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

1995
Two by Dove poster

Two by Dove

Movie · Music

1995
Hiroshima poster

Hiroshima

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

1994
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale poster

Squanto: A Warrior's Tale

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

1994
Lou Didn’t Say No poster

Lou Didn’t Say No

Movie · Music

1993
Hail, Sarajevo poster

Hail, Sarajevo

Movie · Music

1993
Cage

Cage

Movie · Music

1992
Lessons of Darkness poster

Lessons of Darkness

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

1991
The Lovers on the Bridge poster

The Lovers on the Bridge

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

1991
Lest We Forget poster

Lest We Forget

Movie · Music

1991
For Thomas Wainggai poster

For Thomas Wainggai

Movie · Music

1989
Queen of Hearts poster

Queen of Hearts

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

1989
Rachel River poster

Rachel River

Movie · Additional Soundtrack, Original Music Composer

1988
Testament poster

Testament

Movie · Additional Soundtrack

1988
POV poster

POV

TV · Additional Soundtrack · 1 ep

1987
The Paper Bridge poster

The Paper Bridge

Movie · Music

1987
Mallorca poster

Mallorca

Movie · Music

1986
Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company poster

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company

Movie · Music

1979
Pilot Pirx's Inquest poster

Pilot Pirx's Inquest

Movie · Original Music Composer

1978
Tracks on Snow poster

Tracks on Snow

Movie · Music

1976
Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat poster

Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Movie · Original Music Composer

1975
Colourful Dreams poster

Colourful Dreams

Movie · Original Music Composer

1974
Sisters poster

Sisters

Movie · Music

1974
Where the Little Stars Grow poster

Where the Little Stars Grow

Movie · Music

1974
Spring in the Forest poster

Spring in the Forest

Movie · Original Music Composer

1973
Colored Pencils poster

Colored Pencils

Movie · Music

1973
Pallid poster

Pallid

Movie · Music

1973
Underwater poster

Underwater

Movie · Music

1973
Such Stories poster

Such Stories

Movie · Music

1972
Üks helin mul helises rinna sees poster

Üks helin mul helises rinna sees

Movie · Music

1971
Summer Games of Insects poster

Summer Games of Insects

Movie · Music

1971
Inspiration poster

Inspiration

Movie · Music

1970
Ice State poster

Ice State

Movie · Music

1970
Athomic poster

Athomic

Movie · Music

1970
Athomic and Stouts poster

Athomic and Stouts

Movie · Music

1969
The White Land of Enderby poster

The White Land of Enderby

Movie · Music

1968
Kips the Operator in the Stone Kingdom poster

Kips the Operator in the Stone Kingdom

Movie · Music

1967
Stork Chick poster

Stork Chick

Movie · Music

1966
Kips the Operator on a Desert Island poster

Kips the Operator on a Desert Island

Movie · Music

1965
New Adventures of Kips the Operator poster

New Adventures of Kips the Operator

Movie · Music

1965
Mouse Hunt poster

Mouse Hunt

Movie · Music

1965
The Milkman of Mäeküla poster

The Milkman of Mäeküla

Movie · Original Music Composer

1964
The Last Chimney-Sweep poster

The Last Chimney-Sweep

Movie · Music

1964
Cameraman Kõps in Mushroomland poster

Cameraman Kõps in Mushroomland

Movie · Music

1963
Just Like That! poster

Just Like That!

Movie · Music

1962
From Evening Till Morning poster

From Evening Till Morning

Movie · Music

1962
Little Scooter poster

Little Scooter

Movie · Music