Born in Paide, Sept 11, 1935
- Pärt’s music is known for the influence of early music, expressions of faith, and a gently dissonant style he calls tintinnabuli, in which a melody is built around repeating tonal triads, creating a diatonic dissonance that resembles the ringing of bells.
- Pärt and his family relocated to Berlin after 1980, because the overtly religious and seeming archaic/simplistic style of his music met with disapproval from Soviet authorities and academics.1
Biography from the Arvo Pärt Centre
Sources
- Paul D. Hillier, “Pärt, Arvo,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 19, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000020964.