Michael Nyman (born March 23, 1944) is a British
minimalist composer,
pianist, librettist and
musicologist, perhaps best known for the many scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the British filmmaker Peter Greenaway. Nyman, who had studied with the noted
Baroque music scholar
Thurston Dart at King's College London, drew frequently on early music sources in his scores for Greenaway's films:
Henry Purcell in The Draughtsman's Contract and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover,
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber in A Zed and Two Noughts,
Mozart in Dro…
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