Arvo Pärt
Songs from Childhood
Dedication: für meine Mutter / to my mother
Pärt - Lieder aus der Kindheit for children's choir and piano
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Arvo Pärt
Lieder aus der KindheitOrchestration: for children's choir and piano or ensemble
Type: Chorpartitur
Language: Deutsch | Englisch | Estnisch
Arvo Pärt
Pärt: Songs from Childhood for children's choir and piano
Available digitally
Orchestration: for children's choir and piano
Type: Noten mit CD
Language: Deutsch | Englisch
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“I went to nursery school every day until the end of secondary school!” Arvo Pärt says and pauses, staring slyly at his listener. Only after a few lengthy seconds more does he add: “My mother worked at a nursery school in Rakvere, and I always went to visit her after my lessons.” There, the future composer often sat at the piano and played or improvised for his little friends. Children’s stories and songs as well as their world of make-believe was a natural, everyday environment for Pärt. Even now, many decades later, he knows by heart a large number of nursery rhymes and silly ditties, and can pull them out of his sleeve at just the right moment. Arvo Pärt finds a common language with children with ease – just as children do with him.
On 21 October, the Arvo Pärt Centre together with Universal Edition presented Songs from Childhoodat the Berlin Dussmann KulturKaufhaus in Berlin. We filmed the whole event, watch our video here: