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Michael Nyman (b. 1944)


Michael Nyman (b. 1944)

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985)

Drowning by Numbers (1988)

The Piano (1992)



Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (b. March 23, 1944, London) is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, perhaps best known for the many scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway. His operas include The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs, Facing Goya, Man and Boy: Dada, and Love Counts.

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