Michael Nyman
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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