Arvo Pärt is an Estonian composer born in 1935 in Järva-Jaani, Estonia. He studied music in Tallinn and began his career as a composer in the 1960s. Pärt's early work was influenced by modernist and avant-garde styles, but he eventually developed a distinctive style characterized by simplicity, clarity, and spirituality.
The concept of a "partition" usually belongs to history books and treaties—the partition of Poland, the partition of India, the division of the Iron Curtain. To apply it to the modern European Union is an act of artistic provocation. missa pro europa partition