![]() These notes have ended up in the archive as researchers have asked for advice, and have requested the family to read their research before completion. The archive includes scholarly works and books, but also their rough drafts, together with notes by the composer or his wife, Nora Pärt. The photographs are available as negatives, positives, and as digital files, with more added almost every day. The collection has tens of thousands of photographs, related to Pärt’s private, as well as public life. Sketch of “Für Alina” from a musical diary, 1976 The archive also contains musical dedications written to friends and colleagues, calendars, programmes, posters, interviews with the composer and interpreters of his music, media coverage, etc. We have also digitised materials located in the National Archives of Estonia, the Estonian Film Archives, the Estonian Literary Museum, and the Estonian Public Broadcasting Archives. The prevailing system in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic was for the state government to obtain the original scores, with composers left only with copies. ![]() Most of Pärt’s original scores and sketches from 1950s to 1970s are currently located at the the Estonian Theatre and Music Museum and the archive holds only their digital copies. ![]() The most recent of them have not yet reached the Centre, as the composer is still working. The most valuable items in the archive are the handwritten scores, sketches, schemes, and musical diaries. Thanks to her work, the Centre archivists did not have to start by processing the material in detail, but were able to implement the classification system Nora Pärt developed, supplementing it only with minor contemporary archiving requirements.Īrvo Pärt’s archive is rather substantial and contains a lot of different types of documents. Nora Pärt can be considered Arvo Pärt’s first archivist, as for the past thirty years, she took care of the huge volume of documents. The bulk of the family archival documents, however, started to accumulate from 1980 onwards, after emigrating to the West. Handwritten documents related to the composer’s creative work date back to 1970s. The oldest of them dates back to 1863 – it is a Bible the composer’s grandmother used for reading to her family on Sundays. The majority of the archival materials in the personal archive of Arvo Pärt are original documents from the composer’s family. The core of the Arvo Pärt Centre is its archive, which brings together the entire creative heritage of the composer and related information and documents, both in physical and digital form. ![]()
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