Max Richter (composer)

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Max Richter 2016 in Leipzig
Chart placements
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Albums
Recomposed by Max Richter - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
  DE 48 05/09/2014 (3 weeks)
  AT 30th 05/09/2014 (1 week)
  CH 86 05/04/2014 (1 week)
From sleep
  DE 72 09/11/2015 (1 week)
  CH 81 09/13/2015 (1 week)
  UK 44 09/17/2015 (4 weeks)
Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works
  CH 89 02/05/2017 (1 week)
  UK 70 02/09/2017 (1 week)
Voices
  DE 67 08/07/2020 (1 week)
  CH 35 08/09/2020 (... Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / provisional / 2020 where.)
  UK 26th 08/13/2020 (1 week)

Max Richter (born March 22, 1966 in Hameln , Germany ) is a British composer . Among other things, he composed the music for the animated documentary film Waltz with Bashir by Ari Folman .

Life

Born in Germany and raised in England, Max Richter now lives and works in Berlin. He studied classical composition and piano at the University of Edinburgh and the Royal Academy of Music . At the Tempo Reale in Florence he learned from the famous Italian composer Luciano Berio .

After completing his studies, Richter co-founded the Piano Circus ensemble, which consists of six pianists and performs contemporary compositions by, among others, Arvo Pärt , Brian Eno , Philip Glass and Steve Reich . He worked with the ensemble for ten years and produced five albums with them. In 1996 he collaborated with Future Sound of London as a pianist and co-author on the album Dead Cities . He then worked for two years with FSOL and contributed to the albums The Isness and The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness . Together with the Mercury Prize winner Roni Size , Richter worked on the Reprazent album In the Mode in 2000 . Richter was not only active as a composer, but also worked on albums as a producer. He produced Vashti Bunyan's album Lookaftering in 2005 and Kelli Ali's album Rocking Horse in 2008 .

Richter is characterized by a compositional style that combines ambient samples with chamber music instrumentation. Since working with the techno and ambient pioneers Future Sound of London , he has understood music as an interplay of colors, sounds and feelings, which he tries to bring into his compositions.

At the end of June 2020, Max Richter became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .

Works

Solo work

In 2002 Richter released his solo debut Memoryhouse , which he recorded with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and violinist Alexander Bălănescu . The composer sees his work as an experimental album with “documentary music” that deals with real and fictional stories at the same time. Memoryhouse combines text sequences and poetry readings (including texts by Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva ) that are underlaid with ambient sounds. Five tracks from this album ("Europe, After the Rain", "The Twins (Prague)", "Fragment", and "Embers") were used in the six-part BBC documentary Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution .

On his second album, The Blue Notebooks from 2004, actress Tilda Swinton reads from Franz Kafka's diary entries. He himself describes the style of the album as "post-classic" - a combination of neo-classic , electronic sounds and "found sound".

In Songs from Before (2006) Robert Wyatt reads passages by Haruki Murakami . The works of the Japanese writer inspired Richter to write his compositions. In 2008 Richter published his fourth solo album 24 Postcards in Full Color - a collection of 24 classically composed works that are also intended as ringtones. The pieces vary the theme and consist of piano melodies, string arrangements and electronic elements. His album Infra is an adaptation of his composition for the dance piece of the same name by Wayne McGregor , for which the visual artist Julian Opie created the computer animations. In 2008 the piece was premiered by the Royal Ballet in London.

In 2015, Richter released his most ambitious project to date, Sleep , an 8.5-hour listening experience designed for a full night's sleep . The album itself contains 31 compositions, most of which last 20-30 minutes, all based on variations on 4-5 themes. The music is calm, slow, soft and was composed for piano, cello, two violas, two violins, organ, soprano singing, synthesizer. Richter also released a one-hour version of the project ( From Sleep).

In January 2017, Max Richter's eighth album Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works was released. The music comes from the score that Richter composed for the ballet Woolf Works in collaboration with the choreographer Wayne McGregor. The album follows a three-part structure, with the parts corresponding to three books by Virginia Woolf ( Mrs. Dalloway , Orlando and The Waves ).

Film music

Richter regularly composes film music . One of his best-known works is the film score for Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir , which won him the 2008 European Film Prize for best film music . He also wrote the music for Feo Aladag's Die Fremde (other music by Stéphane Moucha ), for which the German Film Critics' Prize in 2010 was awarded for the best film music. For Martin Scorsese's film Shutter Island , Richter's composition On the Nature of Daylight from his album The Blue Notebooks was combined with Dinah Washington's vocals This Bitter Earth . Richter also wrote the soundtrack for Peter Richardson's documentary How to die in Oregon and the 2011 score for Impardonnables by André Téchiné . Other films that use Richter's music are the French drama Sarahs Schlüssel by Gilles Paquet-Brenner , David Mackenzie's thriller Perfect Sense , Anja Salomonowitz 's feature film Spain (2012) and Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi drama Arrival (2016). Richter received the Bavarian Film Prize 2012 for the music for Cate Shortlands Film Lore .

In recent years, Richter has also devoted himself to composing for television series. In 2014, he was recognized for the theme music on the HBO television series The Leftovers at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards . For director Joe Wright he composed the music for an episode of the series Black Mirror (episode "Crashed" in season 3) and has been responsible for the composition of the series Taboo , broadcast on BBC One , since 2017 .

Cooperations

In collaboration with dancer Wayne McGregor and artist Julian Opie , Richter wrote the music for the ballet "Infra", which premiered in 2008 at the Royal Opera House in London. In 2010 Richter created the sound installation The Anthropocine for Darren Almond's film installation in the White Cube Gallery London.

Discography

  • Memory house. BBC, 2002; FatCat Records , 2009
  • The Blue Notebooks. FatCat Records, 2004
  • Songs from Before. FatCat Records, 2006
  • 24 postcards in full color. FatCat Records, 2008
  • Infra. FatCat Records, 2010
  • Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons . Deutsche Grammophon , 2012
  • The Congress. Milan, 2014
  • Sleep. Deutsche Grammophon, 2015
  • From sleep. Deutsche Grammophon, 2015
  • Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works. Deutsche Grammophon, 2017
  • Out of the dark room. (2-CD compilation), 2017
  • The Blue Notebooks (15 Years). Deutsche Grammophon, 2018
  • Voyager - Essential Max Richter Deutsche Grammophon, 2019
  • Voices Deutsche Grammophon, 2020

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Max Richter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Chart sources: Germany - Austria - Switzerland - Great Britain
  2. ^ Academy Invites 819 To Membership. In: oscars.org, June 30, 2020.
  3. ↑ Werner Herpell: Classic: How Max Richter reinvented himself again . In: The world . January 26, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed September 15, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Hollywood Music In Media Awards - Winners 2014 . Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  5. ↑ I like it: Max Richter composed the music for an episode of the British series “Black Mirror” . In: KlassikAkzente . October 20, 2016. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  6. ↑ Max Richter's new album is 8 hours long , accessed on August 11, 2015
  7. ↑ echoklassik.de - Prize Winner 2013 ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 6, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.echoklassik.de
personal data
SURNAME Judge, max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamelin