Composer

Michael Nyman

English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist

b. 1944

108 works and musical collections

Born: 1944
Birthplace: Stratford
Citizenship / historical state: United Kingdom
Period (estimated from birth year): Contemporary

Biography

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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Life and musical career

Occupations: composer; musicologist; pianist; film score composer; recording artist; music critic
Education: Royal Academy of Music; King's College London; Sir George Monoux College
Instruments played: piano
Genres: opera
Notable works: Wonderland
Awards: Commander of the Order of the British Empire; AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score; Lucie Award; honorary degree of the University of Leeds; doctor honoris causa of the University of Warwick
Official website: https://www.michaelnyman.com/
Languages used: English
VIAF ID: 29718990
ISNI: 0000000114893709
GND ID: 129928771
Library of Congress ID: n81014585
MusicBrainz ID: c3161cf7-cab1-4409-9b1f-876561dd7716

Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.

In this catalogue

Common listed instruments: Piano, violin, Viola, String Quartet, Voice
Genres represented: Classical, Jazz, pop
Source entries with composition dates: 0

These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.

Catalogue

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Instruments describe listed editions, including arrangements. Composition dates and keys appear where recorded; collection pages show their individual contents.

Works and musical collections with sheet music details
Title	Work details	Listed instruments	Sheet music
Work & excerpts The Heart Asks Pleasure First 1 excerpt listings	See work details	Check individual editions	View sheet music Contents & editions
The Promise	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
If (The Diary Of Anne Frank)	See work details	Piano Voice Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Sheep 'n' Tides (Drowning By Numbers)	See work details	Piano violin Viola Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
The Schoolroom (The Diary Of Anne Frank)	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
The Embrace	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
All Imperfect Things	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Bill	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Titch	See work details	Piano Guitar Voice Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Big My Secret	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Deep Sleep Playing	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Franklyn	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
The Departure	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
The Attraction Of The Pedalling Ankle	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Here To There	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Lost And Found	See work details	Piano Tenor Saxophone Jazz · Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Love (Enemy Zero)	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Nadia	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Digital Tragedy (Enemy Zero)	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Chatterbox Waltz	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Jack	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Chasing Sheep Is Best Left To Shepherds (Draughtsman's Contract)	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Fly Drive (Carrington)	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Time Lapse (A Zed & Two Noughts)	See work details	Piano violin Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
The Morrow	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
The Exchange	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Odessa Beach	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Goodbye Moortie	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Diary Of Love	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Candlefire	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Silver-Fingered Fling	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
In Re Don Giovanni	See work details	violin String Quartet Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Masque Arias	See work details	Trumpet Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
The Heart Asks Pleasure First Performed by Michael Nyman	See work details	Piano Classical · pop	View sheet music Work & edition details
Flugelhorn And Piano	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Angelfish Decay	See work details	Piano violin Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Time Will Pronounce	See work details	Piano Cello violin Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
The Mood That Passes Through You	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Songs For Tony	See work details	Saxophone Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Wheelbarrow Walk	See work details	violin Viola Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat	See work details	See edition details Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Why?	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
On The Fiddle	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Debbie	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
The Convertibility Of Lute Strings	See work details	harpsichord Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Fish Beach	See work details	violin Viola Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Knowing The Ropes	See work details	violin Viola Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Trysting Fields	See work details	violin Viola Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details

Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 29718990. Portrait: Josep Renalias, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.