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""I've been listening to a lot of Arvo Pärt lately." - Pippa
“Over and over I played her favourite Arvo Pärt, as a way of being with her."


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""How was midnight mass?" she asked.
"It was beautiful. I played Arvo Pärt's Annum per Annum.""

3.35 avg rating — 4,273 ratings

""A flashing caption said it was Spiegel im Spiegel, a piece for piano and violin by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. Vera had fallen in love with it for a while when I was a child and played it over and over for months.” - pg. 79
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""Ta hääldas suurepäraselt nime Arvo Pärt." (He pronounced the name Arvo Pärt very well) - about Goran in the "Luule" (Poetry) novella."

3.51 avg rating — 831 ratings

"“He knew nothing about Arvo Pärt, he had just decided on impulse to go into the music shop that was open late, and suddenly found himself staring at the light green CD cover with a name on it that appealed to him, without him being able to explain why, ARVO PÄRT,”
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"Those who knew him said it was how he'd have wanted to go. Dieter Hess died in his armchair, surrounded by his books, a half-glass of 2008 Burgundy at his elbow, a half-smoked Montecristo in the ashtray on the floor. In his lap, Yeats's Collected - the yellow-jacketed Macmillan edition - and in the CD tray Pärt's Für Alina, long hushed by the time Bachelor found the body, but its lingering silences implicit in the air, settling like dust on faded surfaces.
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3.53 avg rating — 413 ratings

"pg. 36 "In the evenings they often sat together in the old dining room, he behind his big computer screen, she in the red chair, reading novels, cutting things out for her scrapbook, playing with her hair, lost in thought. An #ArvoPärt album in the background.""

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""Sweater party, towel pile party, Arvo Pärt, “Spiegel im Spiegel,” the fact that Leo and I were talking about Stacy and how she’s down on everything except vegans,"
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"pg.211 "I listen to music, Not Christmas songs, of course. Mahler and Pärt and Shostakovich, mainly." - Android

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"pg.66 "Kui üks rahvas on maailmale kinkinud Skype'i, Pärdi ja Tänaku, siis tasub tema tegemistel silma peal hoida." (If one nation has gifted the world with Skype, Pärt and Tänak, then it is worth your while to keep your eye on its activities.)"

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"How about some Schubert? Oh, maybe not Schubert, whose pen, in the words of Arvo Pärt, was 50% ink, 50% tears."

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"pg.2 The soul cleansing strains of Arvo Pärt's Fratres ("

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"pg. 47 "I borrowed a CD of Arvo Pärt from Diego and played it on the way to work."

4.15 avg rating — 6,869 ratings

"Those who knew him said it was how he'd have wanted to go. Dieter Hess died in his armchair, surrounded by his books, a half-glass of 2008 Burgundy at his elbow, a half-smoked Montecristo in the ashtray on the floor. In his lap, Yeats's Collected - the yellow-jacketed Macmillan edition - and in the CD tray Pärt's Für Alina, long hushed by the time Bachelor found the body, but its lingering silences implicit in the air, settling like dust on faded surfaces.
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3.50 avg rating — 11,692 ratings

"However, the Composers' Union did allow him to compose soundtracks. This was harmless, they reasoned, no one goes to a film to listen to the music."

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""My mother was listening to her beloved Arvo Pärt full blast. She had on the Veni Sancte Spiritus from his Berliner Messe. The throbbing, insistent strings of the rest of the piece fell away here into a slight melodic line, a lost echo of a folk melody. When the sopranos took over the repeating notes they recalled women who turned in woodlots, and the men chanted back:
Flecte quod est rigidum
fove quod est frigidum
rege quod est devium
(Bend what is rigid
melt what is frozen
rule over what wanders)""