Symphony No. 1 "Polyphonic" – Arvo Pärt Centre (2024)
Symphony No. 1 was completed in 1963 after graduating the Tallinn Conservatory and is dedicated to Heino Eller, Arvo Pärt’s composition professor. The symphony continues the direction of Nekrolog (1960), Pärt’s first orchestral composition and the very first piece in Estonian music to use the dodecaphonic technique. The symphony also has common traits with the first sound mass work in Estonian music, Perpetuum mobile, which was composed in the same year.
The title of the symphony, Polyphonic, as well as the titles of the two movements – Canonsand Prelude and Fugue – refer to contrapuntal texture and the forms of classical polyphony. The constructive basis of the symphony is the dodecaphonic note row, which is strictly adhered to. P…
Arvo Pärt (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈɑrʋo ˈpært]; born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of contemporary classical music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented.
"Spiegel im Spiegel" in German can literally mean both "mirror in the mirror" and "mirrors in the mirror", referring to an infinity mirror, which produces an infinity of images reflected by parallel plane mirrors: the tonic triads are endlessly repeated with small variations as if reflected back and forth.
The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Inc. (ARVO) was founded in 1928 in Washington, DC by a group of 73 ophthalmologists. The Association's membership today numbers about 10,000 and continues to grow.
Simple and transparent in the auditory sensation, tintinnabuli music has a strong core: It is based on the number (autonomous series of numbers, or a text with all its parameters as the numerical structure), which determines the objectivity of the structure of the musical matter to the smallest detail.
Sprechstimme is a vocal style that combines elements of song and speech. Like a conventional vocal melody, Sprechstimme uses musical notation that indicates rhythm and pitch. But instead of singing the pitches, the performer recites them.
In 2009 his fourth symphony, Los Angeles, premiered, and the following year the Arvo Pärt Centre, home to the composer's archives, was established in Harjumaa, Estonia. A new building opened in 2018, expanding the centre's programming to include concerts and educational activities.
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