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# Arvo Pärt is the world’s most performed living composer fifth year running

By  [Silver Tambur](https://estonianworld.com/author/silver/)
  ·  January 12, 2016  · [Culture](https://estonianworld.com/category/culture/)
 · 1 minute of reading

### Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has, for the fifth year running, been given the title of the “world’s most performed living composer” by the classical music event database, [Bachtrack](https://bachtrack.com/classical-music-statistics-2015) .

“Arvo Pärt continues to be the most performed contemporary concert composer, leagues ahead of John Adams and John Williams,” Bachtrack said. The top contemporary opera composer is Jonathan Dove.

Overall, Mozart took over from Beethoven as the most performed concert composer, closely followed by Bach, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Schubert.

Bachtrack calculates a series of statistics each year which show the number of times the work of each composer has been performed, along with information regarding the “hardest working” conductors, orchestras and most performed individual works.

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Cover: Arvo Pärt.

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[Silver Tambur](https://estonianworld.com/author/silver/)
Silver Tambur, co-founder and publisher of *Estonian World*, studied journalism at the University of Tartu and politics at Birkbeck, University of London. He has edited Estonian Public Broadcasting’s English news and contributed to *Business Sense*, *Deutsche Welle*, and *Radio New Zealand*. He is currently editor-in-chief of *Trialoog*, TalTech’s business and research portal. You can also follow him on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/SilverTambur)
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