Arvo Pärt Spiegel im Spiegel (audio + sheet music)

Spiegel im Spiegel, composed in 1978, was the last work Arvo Pärt completed before leaving his native Estonia. Following the inaugural tintinnabular works by only two years, the work stands as one of the most carefully distilled examples of Pärt s new compositional aesthetic, and its extreme tranquility contrasts sharply with the tension and frustration that characterized his music from a decade before. To fully appreciate the beauty of Spiegel im Spiegel, we must go back a few years. The late 1960s foun