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Michael Nyman

1944 - Today

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Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway), and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano. He has written a number of operas, including 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Nyman has received more than 753,868 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Nyman is the 359th most popular composer (down from 345th in 2019), the 1,066th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,032nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Composer.

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  • 750k

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  • 58.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Michael Nyman ranks 359 out of 1,216Before him are Luigi Dallapiccola, Johann Adam Reincken, Dimitri Tiomkin, Michel Richard Delalande, Jan Ladislav Dussek, and Georg Muffat. After him are Johann Kuhnau, Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, Joseph Martin Kraus, Friedrich von Flotow, György Kurtág, and Alfred Newman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Michael Nyman ranks 109Before him are W. G. Sebald, Patrick Depailler, Roger Daltrey, Gary Busey, Frank Oz, and Daniel Pennac. After him are Salvador Sánchez Cerén, Chico Buarque, Kiri Te Kanawa, Nana Akufo-Addo, Rolf M. Zinkernagel, and Rexhep Meidani.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Nyman ranks 1,066 out of 7,765Before him are Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (1945), Frank Oz (1944), Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921), Roy Hodgson (1947), Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900), and Ross Brawn (1954). After him are Alice Bailey (1880), Henry Royce (1863), PJ Harvey (1969), A. J. Ayer (1910), William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520), and Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (1868).

Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Michael Nyman ranks 13Before him are Thomas Tallis (1502), Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872), Keith Emerson (1944), Eugen d'Albert (1864), and John Dunstaple (1390). After him are William Walton (1902), Neville Marriner (1924), Frederick Delius (1862), Albert Ketèlbey (1875), Thomas Arne (1710), and Jeremiah Clarke (1674).

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