Michael Nyman
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Michael Laurence Nyman (born 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.
Music for films, television, and video games
- 5 Postcards from Capital Cities (1967)
- Goole by Numbers (1976)
- Keep It Up Downstairs (1976)
- Tom Phillips (1977)
- A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist (1978)
- Vertical Features Remake (1978)
- 1-100 (1978)
- The Falls (1980)
- Act of God (1980)
- Terence Conran (1981)
- The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
- Brimstone & Treacle (1982) (collaboration with Sting)
- Nelly's Version (1983)
- The Coastline (1983)
- Making a Splash (1984)
- The Cold Room (1984)
- Fairly Secret Army (1984)
- A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
- The Kiss (1985)
- Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire, 1985 (1985)
- L'Ange frénétique (1985)
- Ballet mécanique (1986 score; 1921 film)
- I'll Stake My Cremona to a Jew's Trump (1986)
- The Disputation (1986)
- Le Miraculé (1987)
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1987)
- Fear of Drowning (1988)
- Death in the Seine (1988)
- Drowning by Numbers (1988)
- Out of the Ruins (1989)
- Hubert Bals Handshake (1989)
- Monsieur Hire (1989)
- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
- La Sept (1989)
- Men of Steel (1990)
- Les Enfants volants (1990)
- The Hairdresser's Husband (1990)
- Ich war ein glücklicher Mensch (1991)
- Prospero's Books (1991)
- Not Mozart: Letters, Riddles and Writs (1991)
- The Fall of Icarus (1992)
- The Final Score (1992)
- The Piano (1993)
- Mesmer (1994)
- À la folie (1994)
- Anne No Nikki (Japanese anime adaption of The Diary of Anne Frank) (1995)
- Carrington (1995)
- The Ogre (1996)
- Enemy Zero (1996)
- Anzar (1997)
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- Gattaca (1997)
- Titch (1998)
- Practical Magic (1998) (unused score; 2 cuts made it onto early soundtrack pressings)
- Ravenous (1999) (collaboration with Damon Albarn)
- Wonderland (1999)
- Nabbie's Love (1999)
- The End of the Affair (1999)
- Act Without Words I (2000)
- The Claim (2000)
- Man with a Movie Camera (1929 film; 2001 score)
- Subterrain (2001)
- Haute fidélité (2001)
- 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (2001)
- The Actors (2003)
- Nathalie... (2003)
- Luminal (2004)
- The Libertine (2004)
- Jestem (2005)
- A Cock and Bull Story (2006) (original arrangement of George Frideric Handel's "Sarabande"; re-used recordings from The Draughtsman's Contract)
- Teresa, el cuerpo de Cristo (2007)
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