Leopold Brauneiss
Many of Pärt’s compositions in tintinnabuli technique are based on structural ideas that manifest themselves in a characteristic specification of common rules, very often in connection with a given text. These rules are obligatory for a whole composition or a whole part of it so that no details can be altered. Thus, the first step of the compositional process is to find a proper set of rules guaranteeing satisfactory results in every moment. Another peculiarity is that the compositional process does not end with the first performance but is a work in progress leading to many revisions, sometimes over years, in order to find the perfectly sounding formulation of the basic structural ideas.
