ARVO PRT

(1935)
Estonian composer
Identified with the school of minimalism (mystic or holy
minimalism)
He employs his self-invented technique, Tintinnabuli

Prt has 2 periods in his compositions:

Neo-classical Avant-garde (1958-1968) style influenced of Shostakovich,
Prokofiev and Bartok, using Shoenbergs twelve-tone technique and serialism.
The crisis (19681976) Prts quest for his own musical voice drove him into a
creative crisis that dragged on for eight years, in this period he studied
Gregorian chant, the Notre Dame School and renaissance polyphony. This
crisis gave birth to music in his 2nd period called Tintinnabuli.

TINTINNABULI
Like the ringing of bells
1976 - Present
The Tintinnabuli technique of composition is a process by which a form
of polyphony is built out of tonal material drawn from beyond the
paradigms of functional harmony. In vocal works, structure and form are
additionally subject to all parameters of the text (syllables, words, accents,
grammar, punctuation). First work in this style: Fr Alina.
Simple harmonies, rhythm and single unadorned notes of triads
Do not change tempo
Settings for sacred text: Latin or Church Slavonic Language used in
Orthodox liturgy

The Arvo Prt Centre

Laulasmaa,
Estonia
2010 - Present
The Arvo Prt Centre was founded in 2010 by Arvo Prt and his family with
the aim of creating opportunities for preserving and researching the
creative heritage of the composer in his native land, Estonia, and in the
context of the Estonian language.
Research Institute
Education and music centre
Museum and publishing facility
Archive of Prts works

REFERENC

Empresa
ES
Mayo de 2010 http://www.arvopart.ee/en/
Presente

http://www.arvopart.org/
http://www.universaledition.com/Arvo-Paert/composers-andworks/composer/534

http://www.npr.org/artists/16070552/arvopart
http://www.musicolog.com/part_lenten.asp#.Vwx4x_krL
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IMPORTANT WORKS
Fr
Te
Alina
Deum
1976/1976
1985/1985
Solfeggio
1963/1964
Arbos
Stabat
1977
Mater
Symphony
no1
Fratres
1985/1985
1977
1963/1964
Tabula
Miserere
1989/1989
1977/1977
Symphony
no2Rasa
1966
Spiegel
Lamentate
im
2003/2003
Spiegel
Symphony
no3
1978/1978
Passacaglia
1971/1972
Annum
2003/2003
per
Symphony
no4 Annum
1980/1980
Labb
Agathon
2008/2009
2004/2004
Credo 1968/1968

Accomplishments

1996 American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Music

1996 Honorary Doctor of Music, University of Sydney
1998 Honorary Doctor of Arts, University of Tartu
2003 Honorary Doctor of Music, University of Durham
2006 - Order of the National Coat of Arms 1st Class
2008 Lonie Sonning Music Prize
2008 Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class
2009 Foreign Member, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
2010 Honorary Doctor of Music, University of St Andrews
2011 Chevalier (Knight) of Lgion d'honneur
Empresa
2011 Membership of the Pontifical Council for Culture
Mayo de 2010 2013 Archon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
Presente
2014 Recipient of the Praemium Imperiale award, Japan
2014 Honorary Doctor of Sacred Music, St. Vladimir's Orthodox
Theological Seminary