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.

Studying with Relaxing Classical Music - 2026-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

"Cold Landscapes - Minimalism" - 2025-12-02T00:00:00.000000Z

Classics of the Cinema - 2025-11-01T00:00:00.000000Z

"Patterns in Motion - The Great Minimalists: Vol. II" - 2025-09-16T00:00:00.000000Z

"Patterns in Motion": The Great Minimalists - 2025-06-23T00:00:00.000000Z

Klassische Musik für den Sommer - Über das Meer - 2023-09-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Six Celan Songs - Michael Nyman - 2019-05-01T00:00:00.000000Z

If: Michael Nyman, Henry Purcell - 2019-03-22T00:00:00.000000Z

McQueen - 2018-06-08T00:00:00.000000Z

String Quartets 5 & 4: Chamber Music, Vol. III - 2018-02-23T00:00:00.000000Z

Symphonies No. 5 & No. 2 - 2017-06-09T00:00:00.000000Z

Michael Nyman: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - 2016-09-09T00:00:00.000000Z

Michael Nyman and 'The Tempest' - 2016-08-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Nyman: Complete Piano Music - 2016-03-01T00:00:00.000000Z

The Persistence Of Vision - 2014-07-07T00:00:00.000000Z

Chasing Pianos - The Piano Music Of Michael Nyman - 2014-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

The Piano Sings, Vol. 2 - 2013-12-20T00:00:00.000000Z

All Imperfect Things: The Piano Music of Michael Nyman - 2013-09-06T00:00:00.000000Z

The Film Music of Michael Nyman for Solo Piano - 2013-04-10T00:00:00.000000Z

Chamber Music, Vol. 1: Piano Trios 1992-2010 - 2012-10-29T00:00:00.000000Z

Concertos - Michael Nyman - 2011-09-05T00:00:00.000000Z

String Quartet No.4; Three Quartets - 2011-09-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Acoustic Accordions - 2009-12-28T00:00:00.000000Z

The Glare - 2009-10-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Michael Nyman, The Piano Concerto - 2009-02-16T00:00:00.000000Z

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