LAB: Arvo Pärt

Everyone who writes serial music thinks that the more complex the structure, the stronger and better it is. But that’s not right: it’s the other way around. Why is Webern’s music so highly regarded by contemporary composers? Because it’s so simple; disciplined and rigorous, but simple. (That isn’t to say that there aren’t also very complex things in his music.) Unfortunately however, composers often think that because they think a lot they have something to say. They don’t realise that they have almost nothing to say. Underneath all this complexity there is only a lack of wisdom and no truth. The truth is very simple; earnest people understand that to be so. Those who are not earnest, or who are utterly mistaken, don’t understand it and they translate their mistakes into their music.

— arvopart.info
— Articles, texts, research materials
— Spike Magazine Interview
— International Arvo Pärt Centre

Music: Für Alina, Salve Regina, My heart is in the highlands

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