Michael Nyman , born with London the March 23rd 1944, is a Compositeur, Pianiste, Librettiste and Musicologue English.

He is particularly known to have composed the major part of the musics of the films of Peter Greenaway. Its style, often inspired by traditional type-setters, such Henry Purcell (for Murder in an English garden ) or Mozart, is known as minimalist. He collaborates with the pop singer Damon Albarn (of the group Blur) on the development of the music of the film Vorace of Antonia Bird (1999).

Works

Film musics

• Murder in an English garden ( The Draftsman's Contract , 1982)
• Zoo ( has Zed and two noughts , 1985) with Andréa Ferréol, Brian Deacon
• Drowning by Numbers (1988)
• the Cook, the robber, his wife and her lover ( The cook, the thief, his wife and her to coil , 1989)
• Prospero' S books (1991)
• Sting Quartet our. 1-3 (1991)
• the Husband of the hairdresser (1992)
• the Piano lesson ( The Piano , 1993)
• Time will pronounce (1993)
• The piano concerto/MGV (1994)
• With the madness (six days, six nights) (1994)
• Carrington (1995)
• After extra time (1996)
• Welcome in Gattaca (1997)
• Wonderland (1999)
• Voracious (1999)
• 24 hours of the life of a woman (2003)
• Rochester, the last of the libertines (2005)

Opera

• the man who took his wife for a hat (1987)

External bond

• Official site