English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist
This article is about the composer/musician Michael Nyman. For his eponymous album, see Michael Nyman (1981 album).
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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.[1]
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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...
The MichaelNyman Band, formerly known as the Campiello Band, is a group formed as a street band for a 1976 production of Carlo Goldoni's 1756 play, Il...
daughter of MichaelNyman Nyls Nyman (born 1954), American baseball player Peter Nyman (born 1965), Finnish journalist and TV reporter Rhonda Nyman American...
Gattaca soundtrack by MichaelNyman Problems playing this file? See media help. The score for Gattaca was composed by MichaelNyman, and the original soundtrack...
recruited MichaelNyman, composer for films such as Gattaca and The Piano, to create the soundtrack for Enemy Zero. Eno was a fan of Nyman and had wanted...
MichaelNyman Orchestra is a group that expands on the MichaelNyman Band for specific album work, often for movie soundtracks. In 1993, the Michael Nyman...
II: Nyman/Greenaway Revisited, a collection of works by MichaelNyman for films by British director Peter Greenaway. "Fish Beach" – MichaelNyman (from...
compositional approach include Gavin Bryars, Terry Jennings, Tom Johnson, MichaelNyman, Michael Parsons, Howard Skempton, Dave Smith, James Tenney, and John White...
used.[citation needed] The album is the tenth by Nyman and the seventh to feature the MichaelNyman Band. "Trysting Fields" "Sheep and Tides" "Great Death...
a hotel for Matt's birthday, they do some cocaine before going to a MichaelNyman concert and Lisa tells Matt she is returning to America. The next morning...
them in 1997 (on a Domenico Montagnana instrument). As a member of the MichaelNyman Band he played on the soundtrack of several Peter Greenaway films. Carney...
released The Glare, a collaboration with leading classical composer MichaelNyman. Each of the songs is based on a different news story from the year...
February 20, 2023. Retrieved February 17, 2023. "Chart Log UK: Nadanuf - MichaelNyman". www.zobbel.de. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved...
playing this file? See media help. The score for the film was written by MichaelNyman, and included the acclaimed piece "The Heart Asks Pleasure First"; additional...
objects. The book became the basis of an opera of the same name by MichaelNyman, which premiered in 1986. The book comprises twenty-four essays split...
band's only single to do so. David Toop Steve Beresford Michael Upton Julian Marshall MichaelNyman[citation needed] David Cunningham Vivien Goldman Robert...
The MichaelNyman Songbook is a collection of art songs by MichaelNyman based on texts by Paul Celan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare and...
Walk - The MichaelNyman Band A Certain Party - The MichaelNyman Band House On Fire - The MichaelNyman Band Act Two - The MichaelNyman Band Could This...
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