# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-nyman
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:33:41.565Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-nyman"
name: "Michael Nyman"
slug: "michael-nyman"
description: "Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores, 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. He has written six concerti, five string quartets, and many other chamber works, many for his Michael Nyman Band. He is also a performing pianist. Nyman prefers to write opera over other forms of music."
tagline: "English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist"
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birthDate: "1944-03-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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totalFollowers: 2120
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump