View on Sacred Minimalism and music by Pēteris Vasks as incarnation of theological ideas
View on Sacred Minimalism and music by Pēteris Vasks as incarnation of theological ideas

Summary/Abstract: Music of Pēteris Vasks (1946) presents him as one of the most significant Latvian composers and the most popular representative of Latvian music culture abroad as well, who this year (2016) is celebrating his 70th jubilee and whose education is connected with Lithuania as well.Pēteris Vasks in his creativity tends to speak about global and timeless problems. Birth and death, hate and forgiveness, harmony like a choral and dissonant chaos are themes that are represented in many different sonic forms of the composer’s works. Though he has mastered and synthesized in his own language many different 20th century composition techniques, the dominating musical expression is his desire to certify the necessity of a harmonic global feeling , to renew the worth of classical music and bestow upon it a new sound. Altogether, neoromanticism is clearly sensed in the music works by Pēteris Vasks alongside with an echo of a new expression of the spiritual aesthetics – New Spirituality, New Simplicity or Holy Minimalism.The ideas of the Latvian composer have achieved some kind of theological level, creating his own lexicon of musical means of expression as the way to show his faith.

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