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Thursday, 11 September 2025

Happy Ninetieth Birthday

                        Arvo Pärt, Estonian Minimalist composer

and convert from Lutheranism to Orthodox 
in 1972. From 2011 to 2018 he was officially  
the worlds most performed living composer,
being made second most performed living composer
more recently to film score composer John Williams.

His most recent composition is 'Für Jan van Eyck' 
for choir and organ (2020) hear it here

 


 

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