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23 September 2025

  • curprev 07:1807:18, 23 September 2025 Michael Thomas Jones talk contribs 9,794 bytes +9,794 Created page with "Arvo Pärt, the pre-eminent religious composer of our time, was born in 1935 in Estonia, before its Soviet occupation. His music suggests the contemplative devotion and purity of Gregorian plainchant and Renaissance church chorale, though it could only have been written today, being at once archaic and abstract-modern. With its sense of stasis and light, the music reflects the immensity of the Baltic landscape and Estonia’s own forested plains. Under communism, Pärt f..." Tag: Visual edit