Arvo Pärt

Known For: Sound
Born: September 11, 1935
Place of Birth: Paide, Järva County, Estonia

Arvo Pärt

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.

Filmography

Concerto di Pasqua 2026 - OSN

2026 · Original Music Composer

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

2025 · Original Music Composer

All This Death

2025 · Music

Rebel with a Bow Tie

2025 · Self (uncredited)

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

2025 · Original Music Composer

Huldufólk 102

2024 · Additional Soundtrack

Peace Project With Patricia Kopatchinskaja

2024 · Original Music Composer

Beyond the Homestead

2024 · Music

The Endless - Parts I And II

The Endless - Parts I And II

2024 · Music

Por la gloria de sus padres

2023 · Songs

Nostalghia - Sui luoghi di Tarkovskij 40 anni dopo

2022 · Music, Additional Soundtrack

Revoir Paris

2022 · Additional Soundtrack

Men

2022 · Additional Soundtrack

Odessa Classics Tallinn

2022 · Original Music Composer

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

2022 · Original Music Composer

7 Lakes, 7 Lives

2021

Experience of Goodness

2021 · Music

Birds of Paradise

2021 · Additional Soundtrack

My Name Is Pauli Murray

2021 · Additional Soundtrack

Sweet Thing

2020 · Additional Soundtrack, Music

Europakonzert 2020

2020 · Original Music Composer

Better Days

2019 · Additional Soundtrack

A Hidden Life

2019 · Additional Soundtrack

From Matti with Love

2019 · Additional Soundtrack

I am the Human thy God

I am the Human thy God

2019 · Music

That Pärt Feeling

2019 · Himself

Valley of the Rulers

2019 · Music

Every Sound a Jewel

Every Sound a Jewel

2018 · Self (Archive)

Not Even a Gravestone

2018 · Original Music Composer

The Apparition

2018 · Additional Soundtrack, Music

Wildebeest

2017 · Additional Soundtrack

Novitiate

2017 · Additional Soundtrack

Twenty Two

2017 · Music

Loveless

2017 · Additional Soundtrack

Song to Song

2017 · Additional Soundtrack

Voyage of Time: Life's Journey

2017 · Additional Soundtrack

The Young Pope

2016 · Additional Soundtrack

The Good Place

2016 · Additional Soundtrack

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams

2016 · Additional Soundtrack

Cracking the Shakespeare Code

2016 · Music

The Master

2015 · Music

The Daughter

2015 · Additional Soundtrack

The Wait

2015 · Additional Soundtrack

Knight of Cups

2015 · Additional Soundtrack

Maestro

2015

The Lost Paradise

2015 · Himself

Adam's Passion

2015 · Music

Arvo Pärt: Even if I lose everything

2015 · Himself

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One

2015 · Additional Soundtrack

The Club

2015 · Additional Soundtrack

Standing Tall

2015 · Additional Soundtrack

Avengers: Age of Ultron

2015 · Additional Soundtrack

Mia madre

2015 · Additional Soundtrack

Foxcatcher

2014 · Additional Soundtrack

The Way He Looks

2014 · Additional Soundtrack

Guapas

2014 · Additional Soundtrack

Six by Sondheim

2013 · Additional Soundtrack

The Inner Jungle

2013 · Additional Soundtrack

Triptych

2013 · Additional Soundtrack

Mop King

2013 · Additional Soundtrack

Blue Caprice

2013 · Additional Soundtrack

Singing Women

2013 · Music

Violette

2013 · Additional Soundtrack

About Time

2013 · Additional Soundtrack

Childhood Land Siberia

2013 · Music

The East

2013 · Additional Soundtrack

The Great Beauty

2013 · Additional Soundtrack

Rectify

2013 · Additional Soundtrack

The Place Beyond the Pines

2013 · Additional Soundtrack

To the Wonder

2013 · Additional Soundtrack

The Man Who Laughs

2012 · Additional Soundtrack

Augustine

2012 · Additional Soundtrack

Inescapable

2012 · Additional Soundtrack

The Letter

2012 · Additional Soundtrack

Bells of Europe

Bells of Europe

2011 · Music

Gvido Zvaigzne

2011 · Music

This Must Be the Place

2011 · Additional Soundtrack

The Sleeping Beauty of East Finchley

2011 · Additional Soundtrack

We Have a Pope

2011 · Additional Soundtrack

Into Eternity: A Film for the Future

2010 · Additional Soundtrack

Simple

2010 · Additional Soundtrack

The Secret Life of Chaos

2010 · Additional Soundtrack

Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher

2009 · Himself, Music

Hungry Hills

2009 · Additional Soundtrack

The Young Victoria

2009 · Additional Soundtrack

Elegy of Wood

2009 · Additional Soundtrack

Elegy

2008 · Additional Soundtrack

Criminal Justice

2008 · Additional Soundtrack

The Banishment

2008 · Music

There Will Be Blood

2007 · Additional Soundtrack

The War

2007 · Additional Soundtrack

The Unforeseen

2007 · Additional Soundtrack

In Memory Of Me

2007 · Additional Soundtrack

The Good Shepherd

2006 · Additional Soundtrack

Goya's Ghosts

2006 · Additional Soundtrack

Times and Winds

2006 · Additional Soundtrack

Candy

2006 · Additional Soundtrack

Bang Bang Orangutang

2005 · Additional Soundtrack

Supernatural

2005 · Additional Soundtrack

The Giant Buddhas

2005 · Additional Soundtrack, Music

So You Think You Can Dance

2005 · Additional Soundtrack

The Buried Forest

2005 · Music

Time to Leave

2005 · Additional Soundtrack

Phantom Limb

2005 · Additional Soundtrack

Dickens in America

2005 · Additional Soundtrack

Numb3rs

2005 · Additional Soundtrack

Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution

2005 · Additional Soundtrack

After the Day Before

2004 · Music

Promised Land

2004 · Additional Soundtrack

Dead Man's Shoes

2004 · Additional Soundtrack

Hawaii, Oslo

2004 · Additional Soundtrack

Day and Night

2004 · Additional Soundtrack

Fahrenheit 9/11

2004 · Additional Soundtrack

Notre Musique

2004 · Music

Red Lights

2004 · Additional Soundtrack

TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - R.#07 ROME

2003 · Music

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

2003 · Additional Soundtrack

The Barbarian Invasions

2003 · Additional Soundtrack

Soldiers of Salamina

2003 · Additional Soundtrack

Japón

2003 · Additional Soundtrack, Thanks

Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue

2002 · Himself

Abandon

2002 · Additional Soundtrack

Swept Away

2002 · Additional Soundtrack

Gerry

2002 · Music

In the Darkness of Time

2002 · Music

Heaven

2002 · Additional Soundtrack

C'est la vie

2001 · Additional Soundtrack

War Photographer

2001 · Original Music Composer, Additional Soundtrack

Mostly Martha

2001 · Additional Soundtrack

In Praise of Love

2001 · Music

Lauzon Lauzone

2001 · Additional Soundtrack

Wit

2001 · Additional Soundtrack

After the Reconciliation

2000 · Music

Closed Eyes

2000 · Additional Soundtrack

A Kind of Hush

1999 · Music, Additional Soundtrack

Simons film

1999 · Additional Soundtrack

The Thin Red Line

1998 · Additional Soundtrack

Winter Sleepers

1997 · Additional Soundtrack

Johns

1996 · Additional Soundtrack

Grisha

1996

Mother Night

1996 · Additional Soundtrack

Hamsun

1996 · Additional Soundtrack

Hiroshima

1995 · Additional Soundtrack

Two by Dove

1995 · Music

Lou Didn’t Say No

1994 · Music

Squanto: A Warrior's Tale

1994 · Additional Soundtrack

Hail, Sarajevo

1993 · Music

Cage

1993 · Music

Lessons of Darkness

1992 · Additional Soundtrack

Lest We Forget

1991 · Music

For Thomas Wainggai

1991 · Music

The Lovers on the Bridge

1991 · Additional Soundtrack

Goodbye to Cali

1990 · Additional Music

Arvo Pärt: And Then Came the Evening and the Morning

1990 · Himself

Queen of Hearts

1989 · Additional Soundtrack

Rachel River

1989 · Additional Soundtrack, Original Music Composer

POV

1988 · Additional Soundtrack

Testament

1988 · Additional Soundtrack

The Paper Bridge

1987 · Music

Mallorca

1987 · Music

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company

1986 · Music

Pilot Pirx's Inquest

1979 · Original Music Composer

Arvo Pärt in November 1978

1978 · Self (uncredited)

Tracks on Snow

1978 · Music

Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

1976 · Piano Player at the Restaurant, Original Music Composer

Colourful Dreams

1975 · Original Music Composer

Where the Little Stars Grow

1974 · Music

Spring in the Forest

1974 · Original Music Composer

Sisters

1974 · Music

Pallid

1973 · Music

Underwater

1973 · Music

Colored Pencils

1973 · Music

Such Stories

1973 · Music

Üks helin mul helises rinna sees

1972 · Music

Summer Games of Insects

1971 · Music

Inspiration

1971 · Music

Athomic and Stouts

1970 · Music

Athomic

1970 · Music

Ice State

1970 · Music

The White Land of Enderby

1969 · Music

Kips the Operator in the Stone Kingdom

1968 · Music

Stork Chick

1967 · Music

Kips the Operator on a Desert Island

1966 · Music

The Milkman of Mäeküla

1965 · Original Music Composer

Mouse Hunt

1965 · Music

New Adventures of Kips the Operator

1965 · Music

The Last Chimney-Sweep

1964 · Music

Cameraman Kõps in Mushroomland

1964 · Music

Just Like That!

1963 · Music

Little Scooter

1962 · Music

From Evening Till Morning

1962 · Music

Kotsuage

— · Music

Smoke

— · Music

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