Selected conversations and writings

"Tintinnabuli - when I look for answers in my life, in my music, in my work, I take a walk in this area. In difficult times, I feel exactly that everything external is of no significance. The diversity of things only confuses me, I must seek the One. What is the One, and how do I find it? There are many forms of perfection: everything that is unimportant sinks. Tintinnabuli is something like that. There I am alone with silence." Arvo Pärt (1935) is one of the best-known and most popular composers of our time, who conquered the world's music-loving audience with his own compositional technique, tintinnabuli. This selection contains the Estonian composer's own writings, acceptance speeches, and the most important interviews and conversations with him. The book is completed by a detailed accompanying study presenting Pärt's life and rich oeuvre.