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Date of Birth
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23-March-1944
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Place of Birth
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Stratford, London
(London, London Borough of Newham)
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Nationality
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United Kingdom
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Also know as
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Micheal Nyman, Michael Nymans, Nyman, Michael Nymann, Michel Nyman, Michael Laurence Nyman, Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE
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Profession
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Pianist, Musicologist, Librettist, Film Score Composer, Composer, Film Producer, Film Director, Actor
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Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano. His operas include The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Letters, Riddles and Writs, Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs, Facing Goya, Man and Boy: Dada, Love Counts, and Sparkie: Cage and Beyond, and he has written six concerti, four string quartets, and many other chamber works, many for his Michael Nyman Band, with and without whom he tours as a performing pianist. Nyman stated that he prefers to write opera rather than other sorts of music.
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