Max Richter (born 22 March 1966) is a German-born British composer who has … Read Full Bio ↴Max Richter (born 22 March 1966) is a German-born British composer who has been an influential voice in post-minimalist composition and in the meeting of contemporary classical and alternative popular musical styles since the early 2000s. Richter is classically trained, having graduated in composition from the Royal Academy of Music and studied with Luciano Berio in Italy.
Richter is known for his prolific output: composing and recording his own music; writing for stage, opera, ballet and screen; producing and collaborating on the records of others; and collaborating with performance, installation and media artists. He has recorded seven solo albums and his music is widely used in cinema.
Richter was born in Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany. He grew up in Bedford, United Kingdom, and his education was at Bedford Modern School and Mander College of Further Education. He studied composition and piano at the University of Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Music, and with Luciano Berio in Florence. After finishing his studies, Richter co-founded the contemporary classical ensemble Piano Circus.] He stayed with the group for ten years, commissioning and performing works by minimalist musicians such as Arvo Pärt, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, and Steve Reich. The ensemble was signed to Decca/Argo, producing five albums.
In 1996, Richter collaborated with Future Sound of London on their album Dead Cities, beginning as a pianist, but ultimately working on several tracks, as well as co-writing one track (titled Max). Richter worked with the band for two years, also contributing to the albums The Isness and The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness. In 2000, Richter worked with Mercury Prize winner Roni Size on the Reprazent album In the Møde. Richter produced Vashti Bunyan's 2005 album Lookaftering and Kelli Ali's 2008 album Rocking Horse.
Max Richter has created numerous film and television soundtracks over the years. He composed the score to Ari Folman's Golden Globe-winning film Waltz with Bashir in 2007 supplanting the standard orchestral soundtrack with synth-based sounds and winning him the European Film Award for Best Composer. He also scored the independent feature film Henry May Long, starring Randy Sharp and Brian Barnhart, in 2008 and wrote the music for Feo Aladag's film Die Fremde (with additional music by Stéphane Moucha).
In 2010 Dinah Washington's This Bitter Earth was remixed with Richter's On the Nature of Daylight for the Martin Scorsese film Shutter Island. In July 2010, On the Nature of Daylight and Vladimir's Blues featured throughout the BBC Two two-part drama Dive, which was co-written by BAFTA-winning Dominic Savage and Simon Stevens. On the Nature of Daylight was also featured in an episode of HBO's television series Luck. Four tracks—"Europe, After the Rain", "The Twins (Prague)", "Fragment", and "Embers"—were used in the six-part 2005 BBC documentary Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution produced by Laurence Rees.[45] Richter also wrote the soundtrack to Peter Richardson's documentary, How to Die in Oregon,[46] and the score to Impardonnables (2011) directed by André Téchiné.
An excerpt of the song Sarajevo from his 2002 album Memoryhouse was used in the international trailer for the Ridley Scott film Prometheus. The track, November, from the same album, was featured in the international trailer for Terrence Malick's 2012 film, To the Wonder, and in the trailer for Clint Eastwood's 2011 film, J. Edgar. Films featuring Richter's music released in 2011 include French drama Elle s'appelait Sarah by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, and David MacKenzie's romantic thriller Perfect Sense. In 2012 he composed the scores for Cate Shortland's 2012 Australian-German war thriller Lore and Disconnect, directed by Henry Alex Rubin. Richter latest project is the score to Ari Folman's new film The Congress, which was released in 2013.
Richter is also the composer of the original soundtrack for the HBO series The Leftovers created by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, which was premiered in June 2014. Some of the compositions are included in the albums Memoryhouse and The Blue Notebooks.
In 2016, Richter composed the score to Nosedive, an episode of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror. His piece On the Nature of Daylight opens and closes Denis Villeneuve's film Arrival. He wrote the score to Luke Scott's debut feature Morgan, and the score to Miss Sloane. He composed all the music in BBC One's drama Taboo which was broadcast in January and February 2017.
Richter wrote the score to Infra as part of a Royal Ballet-commissioned collaboration with dancer Wayne McGregor and artist Julian Opie. The production was staged at the Royal Opera House in London in 2008. In 2011, Richter composed a chamber opera based on neuroscientist David Eagleman's book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. The opera was choreographed by Wayne McGregor and premiered at the Royal Opera House Linbury Studio Theatre in 2012. The piece received positive reviews, with London's Evening Standard saying "[it] fits together rather beautifully".[50] Their collaboration continued in April 2014 with Wayne McGregor's 'Kairos'; a ballet set to Richter's recomposition of the Four Seasons and part of a collaborative program involving three different choreographers titled 'Notations' with Ballett Zürich.[51] In April 2014 it was also announced that Richter and McGregor will collaborate again together on a new full-length ballet for summer 2015, as part of the 2014–15 Royal Opera House season.[52] In 2012/13, Richter contributed music to The National Theatre of Scotland's production of Macbeth, starring Alan Cumming. The play opened at New York's Lincoln Centre and subsequently moved to Broadway.[53] The company had previously used Richter's 'Last Days' in their acclaimed production of Black Watch.
In 2010, Richter's soundscape The Anthropocene formed part of Darren Almond's film installation at the White Cube gallery in London. The composer has also collaborated with digital art collective Random International on two projects, contributing scores to the installations Future Self (2012),[54] staged at the MADE space in Berlin, and Rain Room (2012/13) at London's Barbican Centre[55] and MOMA, New York.
Richter is known for his prolific output: composing and recording his own music; writing for stage, opera, ballet and screen; producing and collaborating on the records of others; and collaborating with performance, installation and media artists. He has recorded seven solo albums and his music is widely used in cinema.
Richter was born in Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany. He grew up in Bedford, United Kingdom, and his education was at Bedford Modern School and Mander College of Further Education. He studied composition and piano at the University of Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Music, and with Luciano Berio in Florence. After finishing his studies, Richter co-founded the contemporary classical ensemble Piano Circus.] He stayed with the group for ten years, commissioning and performing works by minimalist musicians such as Arvo Pärt, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, and Steve Reich. The ensemble was signed to Decca/Argo, producing five albums.
In 1996, Richter collaborated with Future Sound of London on their album Dead Cities, beginning as a pianist, but ultimately working on several tracks, as well as co-writing one track (titled Max). Richter worked with the band for two years, also contributing to the albums The Isness and The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness. In 2000, Richter worked with Mercury Prize winner Roni Size on the Reprazent album In the Møde. Richter produced Vashti Bunyan's 2005 album Lookaftering and Kelli Ali's 2008 album Rocking Horse.
Max Richter has created numerous film and television soundtracks over the years. He composed the score to Ari Folman's Golden Globe-winning film Waltz with Bashir in 2007 supplanting the standard orchestral soundtrack with synth-based sounds and winning him the European Film Award for Best Composer. He also scored the independent feature film Henry May Long, starring Randy Sharp and Brian Barnhart, in 2008 and wrote the music for Feo Aladag's film Die Fremde (with additional music by Stéphane Moucha).
In 2010 Dinah Washington's This Bitter Earth was remixed with Richter's On the Nature of Daylight for the Martin Scorsese film Shutter Island. In July 2010, On the Nature of Daylight and Vladimir's Blues featured throughout the BBC Two two-part drama Dive, which was co-written by BAFTA-winning Dominic Savage and Simon Stevens. On the Nature of Daylight was also featured in an episode of HBO's television series Luck. Four tracks—"Europe, After the Rain", "The Twins (Prague)", "Fragment", and "Embers"—were used in the six-part 2005 BBC documentary Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution produced by Laurence Rees.[45] Richter also wrote the soundtrack to Peter Richardson's documentary, How to Die in Oregon,[46] and the score to Impardonnables (2011) directed by André Téchiné.
An excerpt of the song Sarajevo from his 2002 album Memoryhouse was used in the international trailer for the Ridley Scott film Prometheus. The track, November, from the same album, was featured in the international trailer for Terrence Malick's 2012 film, To the Wonder, and in the trailer for Clint Eastwood's 2011 film, J. Edgar. Films featuring Richter's music released in 2011 include French drama Elle s'appelait Sarah by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, and David MacKenzie's romantic thriller Perfect Sense. In 2012 he composed the scores for Cate Shortland's 2012 Australian-German war thriller Lore and Disconnect, directed by Henry Alex Rubin. Richter latest project is the score to Ari Folman's new film The Congress, which was released in 2013.
Richter is also the composer of the original soundtrack for the HBO series The Leftovers created by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, which was premiered in June 2014. Some of the compositions are included in the albums Memoryhouse and The Blue Notebooks.
In 2016, Richter composed the score to Nosedive, an episode of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror. His piece On the Nature of Daylight opens and closes Denis Villeneuve's film Arrival. He wrote the score to Luke Scott's debut feature Morgan, and the score to Miss Sloane. He composed all the music in BBC One's drama Taboo which was broadcast in January and February 2017.
Richter wrote the score to Infra as part of a Royal Ballet-commissioned collaboration with dancer Wayne McGregor and artist Julian Opie. The production was staged at the Royal Opera House in London in 2008. In 2011, Richter composed a chamber opera based on neuroscientist David Eagleman's book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. The opera was choreographed by Wayne McGregor and premiered at the Royal Opera House Linbury Studio Theatre in 2012. The piece received positive reviews, with London's Evening Standard saying "[it] fits together rather beautifully".[50] Their collaboration continued in April 2014 with Wayne McGregor's 'Kairos'; a ballet set to Richter's recomposition of the Four Seasons and part of a collaborative program involving three different choreographers titled 'Notations' with Ballett Zürich.[51] In April 2014 it was also announced that Richter and McGregor will collaborate again together on a new full-length ballet for summer 2015, as part of the 2014–15 Royal Opera House season.[52] In 2012/13, Richter contributed music to The National Theatre of Scotland's production of Macbeth, starring Alan Cumming. The play opened at New York's Lincoln Centre and subsequently moved to Broadway.[53] The company had previously used Richter's 'Last Days' in their acclaimed production of Black Watch.
In 2010, Richter's soundscape The Anthropocene formed part of Darren Almond's film installation at the White Cube gallery in London. The composer has also collaborated with digital art collective Random International on two projects, contributing scores to the installations Future Self (2012),[54] staged at the MADE space in Berlin, and Rain Room (2012/13) at London's Barbican Centre[55] and MOMA, New York.
Patterns
Max Richter Lyrics
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#16 Oh what's it like to be born, to be thrown In…
&friends Know the end is near Don't fight it…
6radley Patterns Bad turns They all come together And it goes One Tw…
A Bullet For Pretty Boy Weakness of our bodies Can't make us climb these walls Wil…
A. K. Paul Got up in a mind to get up Fixed on…
Always Never I'm not even sure what it is we're after We've been…
Armaud up the same ladder down the same lane I knock on all…
Band of Skulls There's one for the sorrow and two for the joy And…
Band Of Skulls䈀 There's one for the sorrow and two for the joy And…
Beyon-D-Lusion crack the code find the patterns write the page burn the cha…
Bronze Whale I've been lost in the mood, It's just too soon Clawing…
Capo Lee I ain't got no time these days Bare emails and meetings…
Cassie Steele I'm so tired of being blue This day has got to…
Catt I can forget about your smile Always when I'm leaving f…
CBDB We fall into patterns They overlap and they underline They m…
Chelan Baby, listen (mmm) Just tell me when you're ready 'Cause I'v…
Chelan & NNAVY Baby, listen (mmm) Just tell me when you're ready '…
Chris Koza Television blizzard burying the storyline The stolen route, …
Conventioner Tell me what to say Shouldn't but I break It's hard to…
Devo Patterns all around you Patterns everywhere Patterns of beha…
EMF She fell fifteen floors Then she died It was the only way…
EMF (Epsom Mad Funkers) She fell fifteen floors Then she died It was the only way…
Eric Bellinger Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh Yeah (Hitmaka) Nah, nah, nah (Maestro …
Escape the Stake You singed your fingers in the coals of the fire You…
Faydee I know you hear this all the time but your…
flight club I still am hoping that somebody out there is listening I…
Floral Green There's water in my lungs Well at least it feels that…
frachter we pump pump pump pump pump pump pump pump our muscles we…
g.rola Launch me into space Without saving face Oh how odd we see…
Herb & Lorraine Geller There was a point in time where everything was blissful The…
Iommi Life is a story Go ahead and find your sight Life is…
Jack Larsen Why am I silent? I don't riot I don't fight And I'm losing…
James Dey When I kick off my shoes you move them, Well you…
Jenobi This is a story about the past about how nothing ever…
Joey Nato Yeah I know you think I changed Leaves change too I guess…
Jonathan Byron Belanger We bend our knees and bring our ears to the…
Josie Dunne I don't wanna do this again Say we're just friends Like that…
Kiki Dee Patterns Falling into place Words becoming sounds Try to hid…
Leonardo Faillace I'll look into your eyes someday To find you've never learne…
Lianne La Havas; Tourist In good time, shapes will form Color shine and lines are…
Matthew & Me I got a pattern A pattern of behavior They say I…
Meristem Watch the pattern on the walls There's no color but the…
Merriment Maybe you could be Some part of what I need And maybe,…
Messgram With my eyes closed, not movin' staring at the dark If…
Mouth of the Architect Starting at the shattering pieces of your body That lay acr…
Nate Brazier Learnt I’d rather keep the wheels turning on (Say you’d neve…
Neighb'rhood Childr'n Your eyes, your eyes They hypnotise and block out They close…
Nova Miller When did we get so naive? Living in repeat everyday, all…
Ouse Is taking me years Finding who I am when all I…
Paul Simon The night sets softly With the hush of falling leaves, Casti…
Perlo Tomorrow I'll be better And you'll find a way to be…
Pool Kids I've been watching you And it's a pretty dance you often…
PuffHost I hate to tell you That none of it matters And everything…
Raksha First step: get your breathing right If you count in twos…
Riley Pearce Listen to the rain we hear from in the car, Slow…
RUIN IT! Implode My head is strong Rework My life is just beginning B…
sailawway Somehow there's a part of me Looking backwards constantly So…
Serj Tankian Life is a story Go ahead and find your sight Life is…
Serj Tankian; Tony Iommi Life is a story Go ahead and find your sight Life is…
Set Everything you want and nothing you need Everything you want…
SETMEONFIRE Reoccurring patterns on my screen and the stories they tell…
Simon & Garfunkel The night sets softly With the hush of falling leaves Castin…
Sky Eats Airplane Falling from a second story window, patterns collide when I…
Small Faces I see crazy patterns everytime I look your way I can…
Stacey Yi Everything you want and nothing you need Everything you want…
Still Pigeon I’ve been trying not to say, what’s been plaguing my…
Sunny Days (Fred Falke Remix) Make me shine all over Cuz sunny days are over And sunny…
System of a Down Life is a story, Go ahead and find your sight. Life is…
System Of A Down ----> Storaged Melodies [Serj Tankian & Tony Iommi] Life is a story, Go ahead and…
Telekinesis Oh my darling Oh my dear There's patterns forming everywhere…
The Black and White Years Yeah... Rack it up Stack it up Bag it up All currencies we j…
The Customers I thought I saw the patterns Before they hit the ground Your…
The Human Abstract I am walking a line between The profound and banal Losing my…
The Small Faces I see crazy patterns everytime I look your way I can…
Tiger Lou Can you see the marks in me Please tell me what…
Tiles Take the chance to break away This doesn't happen every day…
Tom Rado I feel like I gave up Think it's time I made up My mind You…
Tony Iommi Life is a story Go ahead and find your sight Life is…
Tourist In good time shapes will form Color shine and lines are…
Tourist (feat. Lianne La Havas) In good time, shapes will form Color shine and lines are…
Underwater Getdown I thought i saw you sleeping I thought i saw you…
Vera Blue I met you in a dark dark place I met you…
Warrel Dane The night sets softly With the hush of falling leaves, Cas…
Whoa Dakota I Oh, what a waste of all that time. I chose…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Max Richter:
08-Old Song "February the 10th. Sunday. Noise. Peace."…
Arboretum "November the 6th. Like a path in autumn, scarcely has…
Blue Notebooks "Everyone carries a room about inside them. This fact can…
Enola Gay Enola gay, you should have stayed at home yesterday Oho it…
Lullaby i sat the kitchen table and watched the sky grow…
Maria How many people fell in this abyss, I fathom from afar! Ther…
Maria the Poet How many people fell in this abyss, I fathom from afar! Ther…
Old Song "February the 10th. Sunday. Noise. Peace."…
Richter: Old Song "February the 10th. Sunday. Noise. Peace."…
Richter: Shadow Journal "How enduring, how we need durability. The sky before sunris…
Richter: The Blue Notebooks "Everyone carries a room about inside them. This fact can…
Shadow Journal "How enduring, how we need durability. The sky before sunris…
Shadows "How enduring, how we need durability. The sky before sunris…
The Blue Notebooks "Everyone carries a room about inside them. This fact can…
The Departure 15 kisiye saldirdim vurdum vurdum dur ma dim on bes ki si ye…
The Journal "How enduring, how we need durability. The sky before sunris…
The Trees "When Thomas brought the news that the house I was…
Tongue Tied Take me to your best friend's house Roll around this roundab…
Trees "When Thomas brought the news that the house I was…
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