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Michael Nyman
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Michael Nyman was born in London in 1944 and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. He first worked as a music critic and was one of the first to apply the term minimalism to music. With his own Michael Nyman Band, with saxophones and amplified strings, he developed a hard, energetic form of minimal music. For the director Peter Greenaway he built scores on early music: in The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) on bass lines by Henry Purcell, in Drowning by Numbers (1988) on a slow movement by Mozart. His greatest success was The Piano (1993) by Jane Campion. There his piano music, partly based on Scottish folk songs, gives the silent protagonist a voice.
Listening
Chasing Sheep Is Best Left to Shepherds · Michael Nyman, 1982
Trysting Fields · Michael Nyman, 1988
The Heart Asks Pleasure First · Michael Nyman, 1993
Discography
Studio albums
- 1976Decay Music
- 1979'The Masterwork' Award Winning Fish-Knife
- 1981Michael Nyman
- 1982The Draughtsman's Contract (soundtrack)
- 1985A Zed and Two Noughts (soundtrack)
- 1987The Kiss and Other Movements
- 1988Drowning by Numbers (soundtrack)
- 1988The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- 1989And Do They Do / Zoo Caprices (soundtrack)
- 1989La Traversee de Paris
- 1989Out of the Ruins (soundtrack)
- 1989The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (soundtrack)
- 1991Prospero’s Books (soundtrack)
- 1991Songbook
- 1991String Quartets 1-3
- 1992Fitkin: Sextet / Nyman: 1-100 / Seddon: 16 / Rackham: Which Ever Way Your Nose Bends
- 1993Michael Nyman
- 1993The Piano (soundtrack)
- 1993Time Will Pronounce
- 1994À la folie (soundtrack)
- 1994The Piano
- 1995Carrington (soundtrack)
- 1995Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs
- 1995The Cold Room (soundtrack)
- 1995The Diary of Anne Frank (soundtrack)
- 1995The Piano
- 1996After Extra Time
- 1996ENEMY ZERO "PIANO SKETCHES"
- 1996The Ogre (soundtrack)
- 1997Double Concerto for Saxophone & Cello / Harpsichord Concerto / Trombone Concerto
- 1997Enemy Zero (soundtrack)
- 1997Gattaca: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 1998Strong on Oaks - The Protecting Veil
- 1998The Piano
- 1998The Suit and the Photograph
- 1999Ravenous (soundtrack)
- 1999The Commissar Vanishes / The Fall of Icarus (soundtrack)
- 1999The End of the Affair (soundtrack)
- 1999Wonderland (soundtrack)
- 2001The Claim (soundtrack)
- 2001Michael Nyman
- 2002Facing Goya (soundtrack)
- 2002Man With a Movie Camera
- 2002Michael Nyman
- 2002String Quartets 2, 3 & 4 / If & Why
- 200324 heures de la vie d'une femme (soundtrack)
- 2003The Actors (soundtrack)
- 2004Music for Two Pianos
- 2005Man and Boy: Dada
- 2005Nyman/Greenaway Revisited
- 2005The Libertine (soundtrack)
- 2005The Piano (soundtrack)
- 2005The Piano
- 2006Acts of Beauty / Exit no Exit
- 2006Drowning By Numbers (soundtrack)
- 2006Six Celan Songs / The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi
- 2007Love Counts: An Opera In Two Acts
- 20088 Lust Songs: I Sonetti Lussuriosi
- 2008Man on Wire (soundtrack)
- 2008Mozart 252
- 2009Accoustic Accordions
- 2009Glass / Tavener / Nyman
- 2009The Glare
- 2010Vertov Sounds
- 2011Michael Nyman
- 2011Volume 2 Works for Ensemble
- 2011Works for Saxophone Quartet
- 2012Fidelio Trio, Piano Trios 1992-2010 (Chamber Music Vol. 1)
- 2013All Imperfect Things
- 2013The Piano
- 2014Chasing Pianos
- 2014Symphony No. 11: Hillsborough Memorial
- 2015War Work
- 2016Complete Piano Music
- 2016Michael Nyman
- 2016The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- 2017No Time in Eternity
- 2017Symphonies - Symphony No. 5, Symphony No. 2
- 2018McQueen (soundtrack)
- 2019If
- 2019Michael Nyman
Other work
- 1997Gattaca
In School of Rock
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- Film Music MapNL Map
- The Dream Factory: Film Reel 5NL Reader
Mentioned in other articles
- Minimal music in film Genre
In the same year the Briton Michael Nyman wrote energetic music on bass lines by Henry Purcell for Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract.