Max Richter (born March 22, 1966, in Hamelin, West Germany) is a German-born British composer and pianist raised in Bedford, England, who studied at the University of Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Music, and with Luciano Berio in Florence. A leading figure of the post-minimalist “contemporary classical” movement, he co-founded the ensemble Piano Circus before establishing a solo career blending orchestral writing, electronics, and ambient textures. His acclaimed works include The Blue Notebooks (2004), the eight-and-a-half-hour Sleep (2015), and Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons (2012), in which he discarded roughly 75% of Vivaldi’s original material and reconstructed the score using minimalist looping and phasing techniques.

Richter is widely credited with popularizing post-minimalist classical music for mainstream audiences, and his Recomposed Vivaldi project in particular helped pioneer the “reworked classics” genre now common in contemporary classical programming; his piece “On the Nature of Daylight” has become one of the most licensed contemporary classical works in film and television.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Richter_(composer)