During this time he composed many works for children, including the Cantata Meie aed (‘Our Garden’), which received joint first prize at the All-Union Young Composers’ Competition in Moscow in 1962. ![]() Since then he has worked solely as a freelance composer. In 1958 he began work as a sound engineer at Estonian Radio, resigning in 1967 following a period of illness. From 1957 to 1963 he studied composition at the Tallinn Conservatory with Heino Eller, whom he cites as a profound personal and musical influence, and to whom he dedicated his Symphony no.1 ‘Polyphonic’ ( 1963). In the fall of 1956 he was released from the army because of ill health and returned to the Tallinn Music School where he studied briefly with Veljo Tormis. In 1954 he began studies at the Tallinn Music School, but this was interrupted by military service in the Soviet army ( 1954–6). In 1938 he and his mother moved to Rakvere where he studied at Rakvere Music School ( 1945–53) and Rakvere Secondary School No.1 ( 1950–54). Pärt was the only child of Linda Anette and August Pärt. Membranophones (Stretched Membrane Percussion) Music Business, Institutions and Organizations
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