Arvo Pärt (1935).
The Tabula Rasa is a musical composition written in 1977, the piece contains two movements, “Ludus” and “Silentium”, it is a double concerto for two solo violins, prepared piano, and chamber orchestra.
In 1968, Arvo Pärt fell publicly silent and entered a period of “artistic reorientation.” During this period, he developed his tintinnabuli style of composition, which pairs two voices, one playing the notes of a scale (Melodic Voice), and the other playing notes of a triad (Tintinnabuli Voice). Pärt emerged from this period of innovation in 1976, and composed many of his most well known works thereafter.
Tabula Rasa is one of these earliest tintinnabuli pieces, and holds the distinction of being one of the first compositions of Pärt’s to reach Western listeners outside of Estonia and the Soviet States.
