Description of the artist Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt, né à Paide (Estonie) le 11 septembre 1935, est un compositeur de musique contemporaine. Il est associé au mouvement de musique minimaliste qui s'est formé dans les années 1970. Sa musique est épurée, d'inspiration profondément religieuse, qualifiée par certains de postmoderne,
Ses œuvres ont été jouées dans le monde entier et ont donné lieu à plus de 80 disques compact : « Je pourrais comparer ma musique à une lumière blanche dans laquelle sont contenues toutes les lumières. Seul un prisme peut dissocier ces couleurs et les rendre visibles : ce prisme pourrait être l'esprit de l'auditeur » - (Arvo PART).
Arvo Pärt was born in Paide, Estonia, a small town near Tallinn, the country's capital, on 11 September 1935. In 1944, Estonia saw the occupation of the Soviet Union, which would last for over 50 years, and would have a profound effect on his life and music.
His musical studies began in 1954 at the Tallinn Music Secondary School, interrupted less than a year later while he fulfilled his National Service obligation as oboist and side-drummer in an army band. He returned to Middle School for a year before joining the Tallinn Conservatory in 1957, where his composition teacher was Professor Heino Eller. Pärt started work as a recording engineer with Estonian Radio, wrote music for the stage and received numerous commissions for film scores so that, by the time he graduated from the Conservatory in 1963, he could already be considered a professional composer. A year before leaving, he won first prize in the All-Union Young Composers' Competition for a children's cantata, Our Garden, and an oratorio, Stride of the World.
Living in the old Soviet Union, Pärt had little access to what was happening in contemporary Western music but, ...
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