Michael Nyman
English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist
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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Works
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat 1986
- Facing Goya 2000
- A Handshake in the Dark
- Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings
- Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra
- DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse
- Double Concerto for Saxophone, Cello and Orchestra
- Enemy Zero
- MGV
- No Time in Eternity
- On the Fiddle
- Prospero’s Books
- Six Celan Songs
- Songs for Tony
- String Quartet no. 1
- String Quartet no. 2
- String Quartet no. 4
- Taking It as Read
- The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- The Draughtman’s Contract
- The Falls
- The Piano
- The Piano Concerto
- Tristram Shandy
- Water Dances
- Wonderland
Box sets & recent recordings
- Film Music 1980 - 2001 — Michael Nyman (2001) box set · 36 tracks Spotify
- Nyman: Complete Piano Music — Michael Nyman, Jeroen van Veen (2016) box set · 33 tracks Spotify
Box sets & recent releases via Spotify — surfaced automatically, not editorial picks.