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Michael Nyman
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Since 1944
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Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway), 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.
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Michael Nyman, né le 23 mars 1944 à Stratford (quartier du borough londonien de Newham), est un compositeur, pianiste, librettiste et musicologue britannique. Michal Nyman est essentiellement connu pour ses musiques de films, en particulier La Leçon de piano (Jane Campion), Bienvenue à Gattaca (Andrew Niccol), La Fin d'une liaison (Neil Jordan) et plusieurs films de Peter Greenaway. Il compose également pour le spectacle vivant, opéras ou ballets, ainsi que pour divers ensembles instrumentaux. Il a collaboré avec de nombreux artistes et musiciens dont Carsten Nicolai ou Damon Albarn, chanteur des groupes Blur et Gorillaz.
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Discography
Albums
- 1976 Decay Music
- 1979 'The Masterwork' Award Winning Fish-Knife
- 1981 Michael Nyman
- 1987 The Kiss and Other Movements
- 1988 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- 1989 La Traversee de Paris
- 1989 La Sept, Suite
- 1991 Songbook
- 1991 String Quartets 1-3
- 1992 Fitkin: Sextet / Nyman: 1-100 / Seddon: 16 / Rackham: Which Ever Way Your Nose Bends
- 1993 Michael Nyman for Yohji Yamamoto
- 1993 Time Will Pronounce
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- 1994 Le Son de sa Musique
- 1994 The Piano Concerto / MGV
- 1995 Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs
- 1995 The Piano Concerto / On the Fiddle / Prospero's Books
- 1996 After Extra Time
- 1996 ENEMY ZERO "PIANO SKETCHES"
- 1997 Double Concerto for Saxophone & Cello / Harpsichord Concerto / Trombone Concerto
- 1998 Strong on Oaks - The Protecting Veil
- 1998 The Piano Concerto / Where the Bee Dances
- 1998 The Suit and the Photograph
- 2001 The World of Michael Nyman
- 2002 Facing Goya
- 2002 Man With a Movie Camera
- 2002 Sangam: Michael Nyman meets Indian Masters
- 2002 String Quartets 2, 3 & 4 / If & Why
- 2004 Music for Two Pianos
- 2005 Man and Boy: Dada
- 2005 Nyman/Greenaway Revisited
- 2005 The Piano Sings
- 2006 Acts of Beauty / Exit no Exit
- 2006 Six Celan Songs / The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi
- 2007 Love Counts: An Opera In Two Acts
- 2008 Mozart 252
- 2008 8 Lust Songs: I Sonetti Lussuriosi
- 2009 Accoustic Accordions
- 2009 Glass / Tavener / Nyman
- 2009 The Glare
- 2010 Vertov Sounds
- 2011 Peter Greenaway Film Music (Michael Nyman Band & The Zoo Orchestra)
- 2011 Volume 2 Works for Ensemble
- 2011 Works for Saxophone Quartet
- 2012 Fidelio Trio, Piano Trios 1992-2010 (Chamber Music Vol. 1)
- 2013 All Imperfect Things
- 2013 The Piano Sings 2
- 2014 Chasing Pianos
- 2014 Symphony No. 11: Hillsborough Memorial
- 2015 War Work
- 2015 Symphony No 8: Water Dances / 8 Remixes
- 2016 Complete Piano Music
- 2016 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- 2016 Michael Nyman and “The Tempest”
- 2017 No Time in Eternity
- 2017 Symphonies - Symphony No. 5, Symphony No. 2
- 2019 If
- 2019 Six Celan Songs - Michael Nyman
