Michael Nyman

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Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE, is an English composer, pianist, librettist, and musicologist best known for several film scores (many written during his long friendship with filmmaker Peter Greenaway), as well as his multi-platinum soundtrack 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; Facing Goya; Man and Boy: Dada; Love Counts; and Sparkie: Cage and Beyond.

He has written six concerti, five string quartets, and several other chamber compositions, many for his Michael Nyman Band.

He is also a performer.

Nyman prefers to write operas rather than other forms of music.

Early life and education

Nyman was born in London to a family of secular Jewish furriers who immigrated from Poland.

Nyman was educated at Walthamstow's Sir George Monoux Grammar School. He studied at King's College London and the Royal Academy of Music from 1961 to 1967, with Alan Bush and Thurston Dart focusing on piano and seventeenth-century baroque music. In July 1964, he received the Howard Carr Memorial Prize for composition. Nyman, a 1965-66, obtained a residency in Romania to study folk-song, which was aided by a British Council bursary.

Personal life

He was married to Aet Nyman (née Toome), with whom he has two children, Molly and Martha. In honor to Aet, who appears in Greenaway's The Falls, for which he also composed music, his first string quartet performs "Unchained Melody." Molly is also a composer and has written many film scores, including those for The Road to Guantanamo by her father's frequent collaborator, Michael Winterbottom. Martha is a BBC development researcher.

Nyman said in 2005 that he had been a fan of Queens Park Rangers F.C. For 33 years, he has been working.

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Career

Nyman claims he discovered his aesthetic by playing Mozart's "Madamina, il catalogo è questo" on his piano, which "dictated the dynamism, articulation, and texture of everything I've later accomplished." It became the base for his 1977 work In Re Don Giovanni.

In 1969, Nyman supervised Harrison Birtwistle's opera Down by the Greenwood Side and directed the short film Love Love Love (based on, and similar in length to, the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love") before settling into music criticism, where he is commonly recognized as the first to apply the term "minimalism" to music. Op. 2: He gave the introductions to George Frideric Handel's Concerti grossi, Op. George Brecht was interviewed by 6 and interview him in 1976. Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond, Nyman's 1974 publication of Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond, which delves into John Cage's influence on classical composers.

Nyman, a member of the Portsmouth Sinfonia – the self-described World's Worst Orchestra, appeared on their albums and on their concerts in the 1970s. He appeared on the orchestra's recording of Bridge Over Troubled Water on Martin Lewis' 20 Classic Rock Classics album, on which the Sinfonia gave their own interpretations of the pop and rock repertoire of the 1950s and 1970s.

He formed the Campiello Band, which later became the Michael Nyman Band, in 1976 for a tour of Carlo Goldoni's Il Campiello. It began with an old rebecs and shawms, which were used with more modern instruments such as the saxophone, to produce as loud a sound as possible without amplification, and then to a fully expanded string quartet, three saxophone, trumpet, horn, bass trombone, and piano. Many of Nyman's compositions have been written for his ensemble, with the collection being both modified and expanded.

Keep It Up Downstairs, a 1976 British sex comedy, was followed by several films, many of which were European art films, including eleven directed by Peter Greenaway. In his scores for Greenaway's films, Henry Purcell (1982) and The Cook, the Wife (1989) (which included Memorial and Miserere Paraphrasedoutput), Thomas Purcell in The Draughtsman's Contract (1985) and John Dowland in Prosperity by Numbers (1991), largely at the director's request. Part of Not Mozart, he wrote settings to many Mozart texts for Letters, Riddles, and Writs.

Nyman composed Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs for soprano, alto, tenor, and string quartet (1986), based on a case study conducted by Oliver Sacks; and five string quartets. With the Flying Lizards, he also recorded pop music; a version of his Bird List from Peter Greenaway's The Falls (1980) appears on their album Fourth Wall as "Hands 2 Take."

He composed Ariel Songs for soprano and band in 1990; MGV (Musique à Grande Vitesse) for band and orchestra; MGV (Musique à Grande Vitesse) for band and orchestra; and MGV, flute, harpsichord, trombone; and saxophone & cello performed by John Harle and Julian Lloyd Webber;

The Michael Nyman Songbook was created by Nyman in 1991 based on poetry by Paul Celan, Arthur Rimbaud, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and William Shakespeare. His Six Celan Songs from this collection were created for Ute Lemper, with whom he performed the album with. Ute Lemper appeared in the 1992 concert film of the same name directed by Volker Schlöndorff.

Nyman's fame in 1993 has risen after he wrote the score to Jane Campion's award-winning 1993 film The Piano. With over three million copies, the album became a best-seller in classical music. His soundtrack was nominated for a British Academy Award and a Golden Globe, BAFTA, and American Film Institute Award. He produced a soundtrack for the silent film Man with a Movie Camera, largely reworked content for the 1996 video game Enemy Zero's soundtrack.

Gattaca (1997), Ravenous (1999), and The End of the Affair (1999), among other things, are among his Hollywood debuts. Gattaca was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Music by Gattaca.

Nyman formed Foster's Social Orchestra in 1999, which concentrated on Stephen Foster's work. One of their works appeared in the film Ravenous and another work, but not included in the film, appeared on the soundtrack album.

He performed three Nyman operas and more tunes for his children from 2002 to 2005.

On a libretto by Victoria Hardie titled Facing Goya, an extension of their one-act opera Vital Statistics, he produced an opera on the subject of cloning, which was an extension of their one-act opera Vital Statistics. The lead, a widowed art banker, is written for contralto, and Hilary Summers introduced the role first. Man and Boy: Dada (2003) and Love Counts (2005), Michael Hastings' two latest operas, are Man and Boy: Fatherhood (2003) and Love Counts (2005), both based on libretti.

He created the music for the children's television series Titch, which is based on Pat Hutchins' books and illustrated.

Nyman appeared on Live Earth in Japan on July 7, 2007. Nyman began a long-term artistic relationship with filmmaker Max Pugh, which culminated in several short art films, three experimental feature documentaries, and a number of video installations. Nyman realized in 2008 that he discovered his music in collaboration with the cultural association Volumina, Sublime, an artist's book that unites his music with his passion for photography.

Nyman performed The Glare, a joint collection of songs with David McAlmont in October 2009, a new light on his work. McAlmont's album, which was released as part of the Michael Nyman Band, features lyrics based on recent news broadcasts to 11 pieces of Nyman music spanning various stages of his career.

He produced a soundtrack for film Everyday in 2012. Through the Only Window, Keith H. Yoo asked Nyman to write a 26-minute piano quintet in four movements. On June 25, 2012, it opened in the Tuileries Garden of The Louvre in Paris for his father, Yoo Byung-eun's photographic exhibition "Through My Window." The work was shot by Nyman Quintet in the Abbey Road Studios, and Nyman Quintet's record label has been released. Nyman was commissioned again in 2013 to produce a work for Yoo Byung-eun's exhibition in the Palace of Versailles' Orangerie Hall, and he wrote Symphony No. 32-minutes in four movements. 6 "AHAE" portrays the four seasons of nature as depicted by Ahae, a pseudonym for Yoo Byung-eun. Both pieces were premiered by the London Symphony Orchestra at L'Opéra of Versailles in Paris on September 8, 2013 under the composer's baton. It has been scheduled for a planned future release. He appeared in Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera at the Potemkin Stairs in 2015. The performance took place during the 6th Odessa International Film Festival, and attracted nearly 15,000 spectators.

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