Michael Nyman.
English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist
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About Michael Nyman
Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano. He has written a number of operas, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; Letters, Riddles and Writs; Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs; Facing Goya; Man and Boy: Dada; Love Counts; and Sparkie: Cage and Beyond. He has written six concerti, five string quartets, and many other chamber works, many for his Michael Nyman Band. He is also a performing pianist. Nyman prefers to write opera over other forms of music.
Everything about Michael Nyman →- Occupation
- composer, musicologist, pianist, film score composer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- March 23, 1944
- Website
- https://www.michaelnyman.com/