Max Richter

Composer from Germany
1966, March 22nd in Hameln, Germany -

Max Richter is a German-born British composer, pianist and producer, born on 22 March 1966 in Hameln, Lower Saxony, and raised in England. He studied composition and piano at the University of Edinburgh and at the Royal Academy of Music in London, before studying with Luciano Berio in Florence. He co-founded the contemporary piano ensemble Piano Circus, with whom he performed and recorded works by Arvo Pärt, Steve Reich, Philip Glass and Brian Eno, before developing a solo career that blends post-minimalist classical writing with electronics. His albums include Memoryhouse (2002), The Blue Notebooks (2004), Songs from Before (2006), 24 Postcards in Full Colour (2008), Infra (2010), Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (2012), the eight-hour Sleep (2015), Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works (2017), Voices (2020), Voices 2 (2021), Exiles (2021) and In a Landscape (2024). Sleep, conceived as a lullaby for a frenetic world, has been performed in all-night concerts around the world. A prolific film and television composer, he has written scores for Waltz with Bashir (2008), the television series The Leftovers and Hamnet (2025), which earned him an Academy Award nomination; his piece On the Nature of Daylight, from The Blue Notebooks, has been featured in many films, including Arrival. Source: Rondo DB

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Title Subname Catalogue Key Year Type

Ad Astra (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2019-10-18

Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Richter: Dream Solo

2019-08-30

Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

From Sleep

2015-09-04

Deutsche Grammophon (DG)