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

REFERENCES
Empresa
Mayo de 2010 - Presente

http://www.arvopart.ee/en/
http://www.arvopart.org/
http://www.universaledition.com/Arvo-Paert/composers-and-works/composer/534

http://www.npr.org/artists/16070552/arvo-part
http://www.musicolog.com/part_lenten.asp#.Vwx4x_krLX7

IMPORTANT WORKS
Solfeggio 1963/1964
Symphony no1 1963/1964
Symphony no2 1966
Symphony no3 1971/1972
Symphony no4 2008/2009
Credo 1968/1968

Fr Alina 1976/1976
Arbos 1977
Fratres 1977
Tabula Rasa 1977/1977
Spiegel im Spiegel 1978/1978
Annum per Annum 1980/1980

Te Deum 1985/1985
Stabat Mater 1985/1985
Miserere 1989/1989
Lamentate 2003/2003
Passacaglia 2003/2003
Labb Agathon 2004/2004

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
Empresa
2011 Chevalier (Knight) of Lgion d'honneur
Mayo
2010 - Presente
2011de
Membership
of the Pontifical Council for Culture
2013 Archon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
2014 Recipient of the Praemium Imperiale award, Japan
2014 Honorary Doctor of Sacred Music, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary