Arvo Pärt

male

Born on September 11, 1935 (89 years old)

From Paide, Estonia

Known for Sound

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.

Cast Credits

2025
- Rebel with a Bow Tie
  as
  Self (uncredited)
  2025
2021
- 7 Lakes, 7 Lives
  2021
2019
- That Pärt Feeling
  as
  Himself
  2019
2015
2009
- Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher
  as
  Himself
  2009
2002
- Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue
  as
  Himself
  2002
1996
- Grisha
  1996
1990
- Arvo Pärt: And Then Came the Evening and the Morning
  as
  Himself
  1990
1978
- no image
  Arvo Pärt in November 1978
  as
  Self (uncredited)
  1978
1976
- Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
  as
  Piano Player at the Restaurant
  1976

Crew Credits

2024
- no image
  The Endless - Parts I And II
  as
  Music
  2024
- Beyond the Homestead
  as
  Music
  2024
2022
- Nostalghia - Sui luoghi di Tarkovskij 40 anni dopo
  as
  Music
  2022
- Men
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2022
- Revoir Paris
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2022
- Nostalghia - Sui luoghi di Tarkovskij 40 anni dopo
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2022
2021
- Experience of Goodness
  as
  Music
  2021
- My Name Is Pauli Murray
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2021
- Birds of Paradise
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2021
2020
- Sweet Thing
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2020
- Sweet Thing
  as
  Music
  2020
2019
- A Hidden Life
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2019
- From Matti with Love
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2019
- Better Days
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2019
- Valley of the Rulers
  as
  Music
  2019
- no image
  I am the Human thy God
  as
  Music
  2019
2018
- Not Even a Gravestone
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2018
- The Apparition
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2018
- The Apparition
  as
  Music
  2018
2017
- Twenty Two
  as
  Music
  2017
- Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2017
- Novitiate
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2017
- Song to Song
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2017
- Loveless
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2017
- Wildebeest
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2017
2016
- Bosch: The Garden of Dreams
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2016
- Cracking the Shakespeare Code
  as
  Music
  2016
- The Good Place
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2016
- The Young Pope
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2016
2015
- Adam's Passion
  as
  Music
  2015
- The Master
  as
  Music
  2015
- Knight of Cups
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2015
- The Club
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2015
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2015
- Mia madre
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2015
- Standing Tall
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2015
- Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2015
- The Daughter
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2015
- The Wait
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2015
2014
- The Way He Looks
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2014
- Foxcatcher
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2014
- The Crimson Field
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2014
- Guapas
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2014
2007
- The Unforeseen
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2007
- In Memory of Me
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2007
- There Will Be Blood
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2007
2003
- Japón
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2003
- Soldiers of Salamina
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2003
- Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2003
- The Barbarian Invasions
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2003
- Japón
  as
  Thanks
  2003
1988
- Rachel River
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  1988
- Testament
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  1988
- Rachel River
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1988
- POV
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  1988
2023
- Por la gloria de sus padres
  as
  Songs
  2023
2013
- To the Wonder
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2013
- The Place Beyond the Pines
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2013
- Blue Caprice
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2013
- The East
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2013
- The Great Beauty
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2013
- About Time
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2013
- Violette
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2013
- Triptych
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2013
- Mop King
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2013
- no image
  The Inner Jungle
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2013
- Six by Sondheim
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2013
- Childhood Land Siberia
  as
  Music
  2013
- Rectify
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2013
2012
- Augustine
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2012
- The Man Who Laughs
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2012
- The Letter
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2012
- Inescapable
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2012
2011
- no image
  Bells of Europe
  as
  Music
  2011
- Eighty Letters
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2011
- We Have a Pope
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2011
- This Must Be the Place
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2011
- The Sleeping Beauty of East Finchley
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2011
- Gvido Zvaigzne
  as
  Music
  2011
2010
- Into Eternity: A Film for the Future
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2010
- The Secret Life of Chaos
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2010
- Simple
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2010
2009
- Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher
  as
  Music
  2009
- The Young Victoria
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2009
- no image
  Elegy of Wood
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2009
- no image
  Hungry Hills
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2009
2008
- The Banishment
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2008
- The Banishment
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2008
- Elegy
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2008
- The War
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2008
- Criminal Justice
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2008
2006
- Candy
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2006
- Huldufólk 102
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2006
- Times and Winds
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2006
- Goya's Ghosts
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2006
- The Good Shepherd
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2006
2005
- The Buried Forest
  as
  Music
  2005
- Phantom Limb
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2005
- Time to Leave
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2005
- The Giant Buddhas
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2005
- Bang Bang Orangutang
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2005
- The Giant Buddhas
  as
  Music
  2005
- Numb3rs
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2005
- Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2005
- Dickens in America
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2005
- So You Think You Can Dance
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2005
- Supernatural
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2005
2004
- Red Lights
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2004
- Fahrenheit 9/11
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2004
- Day and Night
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2004
- Dead Man's Shoes
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2004
- Hawaii, Oslo
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2004
- Promised Land
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2004
- Notre Musique
  as
  Music
  2004
- After the Day Before
  as
  Music
  2004
2002
- Gerry
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2002
- Heaven
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2002
- Abandon
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2002
- Swept Away
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2002
- In the Darkness of Time
  as
  Music
  2002
2001
- War Photographer
  as
  Original Music Composer
  2001
- In Praise of Love
  as
  Music
  2001
- Wit
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2001
- no image
  Lauzon Lauzone
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2001
- Mostly Martha
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2001
- C'est la vie
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2001
- War Photographer
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2001
2000
- Closed Eyes
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  2000
- After the Reconciliation
  as
  Music
  2000
1999
- A Kind of Hush
  as
  Music
  1999
- A Kind of Hush
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  1999
- no image
  Simons film
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  1999
1998
- The Thin Red Line
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  1998
1997
- Wintersleepers
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  1997
1996
- Hamsun
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  1996
- Mother Night
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  1996
- Johns
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  1996
1995
- Two by Dove
  as
  Music
  1995
- Hiroshima
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  1995
1994
- Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  1994
1993
- Hail, Sarajevo
  as
  Music
  1993
- no image
  Cage
  as
  Music
  1993
1992
- Lessons of Darkness
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  1992
1991
- The Lovers on the Bridge
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  1991
1990
- Goodbye to Cali
  as
  Additional Music
  1990
1989
- Queen of Hearts
  as
  Additional Soundtrack
  1989
1987
- The Paper Bridge
  as
  Music
  1987
1986
- Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
  as
  Music
  1986
1979
- Pilot Pirx's Inquest
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1979
1978
- Tracks on Snow
  as
  Music
  1978
1976
- Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1976
1975
- Colourful Dreams
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1975
1974
- Sisters
  as
  Music
  1974
- Täheke
  as
  Music
  1974
- Spring in the Forest
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1974
1973
- Colored Pencils
  as
  Music
  1973
- Pallid
  as
  Music
  1973
- Underwater
  as
  Music
  1973
1972
- Üks helin mul helises rinna sees
  as
  Music
  1972
1971
- Summer Games of Insects
  as
  Music
  1971
1970
- Ice State
  as
  Music
  1970
- Athomic
  as
  Music
  1970
- Athomic and Stouts
  as
  Music
  1970
1969
- The White Land of Enderby
  as
  Music
  1969
1968
- Kips the Operator in the Stone Kingdom
  as
  Music
  1968
1966
- Kips the Operator on a Desert Island
  as
  Music
  1966
1964
- The Last Chimney-Sweep
  as
  Music
  1964
- Kips the Operator in the Land of Mushrooms
  as
  Music
  1964
1967
- Stork Chick
  as
  Music
  1967
1965
- New Adventures of Kips the Operator
  as
  Music
  1965
- Mouse Hunt
  as
  Music
  1965
- The Milkman of Mäeküla
  as
  Original Music Composer
  1965
1963
- Just Like That!
  as
  Music
  1963
1962
- From Evening Till Morning
  as
  Music
  1962
- Little Scooter
  as
  Music
  1962

Arvo Pärt

Biography

Cast Credits

Rebel with a Bow Tie

7 Lakes, 7 Lives

That Pärt Feeling

The Lost Paradise

Arvo Pärt: Even if I lose everything

Maestro

Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher

Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue

Grisha

Arvo Pärt: And Then Came the Evening and the Morning

Arvo Pärt in November 1978

Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Crew Credits

The Endless - Parts I And II

Beyond the Homestead

Nostalghia - Sui luoghi di Tarkovskij 40 anni dopo

Men

Revoir Paris

Nostalghia - Sui luoghi di Tarkovskij 40 anni dopo

Experience of Goodness

My Name Is Pauli Murray

Birds of Paradise

Sweet Thing

Sweet Thing

A Hidden Life

From Matti with Love

Better Days

Valley of the Rulers

I am the Human thy God﻿

Not Even a Gravestone

The Apparition

The Apparition

Twenty Two

Voyage of Time: Life's Journey

Novitiate

Song to Song

Loveless

Wildebeest

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams

Cracking the Shakespeare Code

The Good Place

The Young Pope

Adam's Passion

The Master

Knight of Cups

The Club

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Mia madre

Standing Tall

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One

The Daughter

The Wait

The Way He Looks

Foxcatcher

The Crimson Field

Guapas

The Unforeseen

In Memory of Me

There Will Be Blood

Japón

Soldiers of Salamina

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

The Barbarian Invasions

Japón

Rachel River

Testament

Rachel River

POV

Por la gloria de sus padres

To the Wonder

The Place Beyond the Pines

Blue Caprice

The East

The Great Beauty

About Time

Violette

Triptych

I am the Human thy God