Michael Neyman est un compositeur minimaliste anglais. Il a écrit beaucoup de musiques de films, dont la leçon de Piano de Jane Campion, avec Harvey Keitel et Holly Hunter.
Cette musique est douce, pas du tout rébarbative comme peuvent l'être certains morceaux de Steve Reich. Pour ceux que ça intéresse, voici la biographie de M. Neyman, que je suis allé pêchée sur Wikipedia. Il est tard et je n'ai pas eu le courage de la traduire...
Michael Nyman (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
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 Drowning by Numbers, and John Dowland in Prospero's Books.
Nyman's popularity increased significantly after he wrote the score to Jane Campion's award-winning 1993 film The Piano.
The album became a classical music best-seller. He has scored numerous
other films, the vast majority of them art films from Europe. His few
forays into Hollywood composing have been Gattaca, Ravenous and .
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