But nine months later Pärt won First Prize in a competition of 1,200 works, awarded by the all- Union Society of Composers, indicating the Soviet regime's inability to agree on what was permissible. Tikhon Khrennikov criticized Pärt in 1962 for employing serialism in Nekrolog (1960), the first 12-tone music written in Estonia, which exhibited his "susceptibility to foreign influences". From 1957 to 1967, he worked as a sound producer for the Estonian public radio broadcaster Eesti Rahvusringhääling. He graduated in 1963.Īs a student, Pärt produced music for film and the stage. During the 1950s, he also completed his first vocal composition, the cantata Meie aed ('Our Garden') for children's choir and orchestra. After his military service he attended the Tallinn Conservatory, where he studied composition with Heino Eller and it was said of him, "he just seemed to shake his sleeves and the notes would fall out". His first serious study came in 1954 at the Tallinn Music Middle School, but less than a year later he temporarily abandoned it to fulfill military service, playing oboe and percussion in the army band. By his early teenage years, Pärt was writing his own compositions. Pärt's musical education began at the age of seven when he began attending music school in Rakvere. He began to experiment with the top and bottom notes of the family's piano as the middle register was damaged. Pärt was born in Paide, Järva County, Estonia, and was raised by his mother and stepfather in Rakvere in northern Estonia.
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