![]() ![]() As a student, he produced music for film and the stage. After his 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 complete his military service, playing oboe and percussion in the army band. By the time he reached his early teenage years, Pärt was already 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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