1944 - Today
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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Among composers, Michael Nyman ranks 359 out of 1,216. Before 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.
1904 - 1975
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 353
1643 - 1722
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 354
1894 - 1979
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 355
1657 - 1726
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 356
1760 - 1812
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 357
1653 - 1704
HPI: 58.60
Rank: 358
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 359
1660 - 1722
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 360
1834 - 1861
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 361
1756 - 1792
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 362
1812 - 1883
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 363
1926 - Present
HPI: 58.49
Rank: 364
1900 - 1970
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 365
Among people born in 1944, Michael Nyman ranks 109. Before 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.
1944 - 2001
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 103
1944 - 1980
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 104
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 105
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 106
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 107
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 108
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 109
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 110
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 111
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 112
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 113
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 114
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.20
Rank: 115
Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Nyman ranks 1,066 out of 7,765. Before 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).
1945 - Present
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 1,060
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 1,061
1921 - 1996
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 1,062
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 1,063
1900 - 1979
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 1,064
1954 - Present
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 1,065
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 1,066
1880 - 1949
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 1,067
1863 - 1933
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 1,068
1969 - Present
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 1,069
1910 - 1989
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 1,070
1520 - 1598
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 1,071
1868 - 1935
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 1,072
Among composers born in United Kingdom, Michael Nyman ranks 13. Before 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).
1502 - 1585
HPI: 61.19
Rank: 7
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 8
1872 - 1958
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 9
1944 - 2016
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 10
1864 - 1932
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 11
1390 - 1453
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 12
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 13
1902 - 1983
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 14
1924 - 2016
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 15
1862 - 1934
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 16
1875 - 1959
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 17
1710 - 1778
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 18
1674 - 1707
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 19