Max Richter

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1966-03-22 (59 years old)

Place of Birth

Hamelin, Lower Saxony, West Germany [now Germany]

Max Richter

Biography

Max Richter (/ˈrɪxtər/; German: [ˈʁɪçtɐ]; born 22 March 1966) is a German-born British composer and pianist. He works within postminimalist and contemporary classical styles. Richter is classically trained, having graduated in composition from the University of Edinburgh and the Royal Academy of Music in London, and studied with Luciano Berio in Italy. Richter arranges, performs, and composes music for stage, opera, ballet and screen. He has collaborated with other musicians, as well as with performance, installation and media artists. He has recorded eight solo albums, and his music is widely used in cinema. As of December 2019, Richter has...

Production

2008

Lost and Found

as Original Music Composer

2008

Waltz with Bashir

as Original Music Composer

2024

Spaceman

as Original Music Composer

2020

Max Richter's Sleep

as Original Music Composer

2010

My Trip to Al-Qaeda

as Original Music Composer

2010

Sarah's Key

as Original Music Composer

2011

Unforgivable

as Original Music Composer

2011

Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster

as Original Music Composer

2022

2012

Lore

as Original Music Composer

2013

Disconnect

as Original Music Composer

2012

Wadjda

as Original Music Composer

2013

The Nun

as Original Music Composer

2012

2013

The Last Days on Mars

as Original Music Composer

2003

2011

2014

96 heures

as Music

2010

When We Leave

as Original Music Composer

2013

The Lunchbox

as Original Music Composer

2014

2014

The Way Out

as Music

2009

The Front Line

as Original Music Composer

2018

Mary Queen of Scots

as Orchestrator

2006

Soundproof

as Original Music Composer

2016

Into the Forest

as Original Music Composer

2013

The Patience Stone

as Original Music Composer

2017

Woolf Works

as Music

2017

2007

Butterfly

as Music

2004

Secret Stories

as Original Music Composer

2008

Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me

as Original Music Composer

2007

Hope

as Original Music Composer

2013

The Congress

as Original Music Composer

2010

Womb

as Original Music Composer

2016

Morgan

as Original Music Composer

2018

White Boy Rick

as Original Music Composer

2015

Testament of Youth

as Original Music Composer

2016

Miss Sloane

as Original Music Composer

2014

Escobar: Paradise Lost

as Original Music Composer

2017

Hostiles

as Original Music Composer

2024

Woolf Works

as Music

2017

The Sense of an Ending

as Original Music Composer

2018

Never Look Away

as Original Music Composer

2008

2019

Ad Astra

as Original Music Composer

2018

Mary Queen of Scots

as Original Music Composer

2019

2013

Miserere

as Original Music Composer

2011

Written in Ink

as Original Music Composer

2011

Perfect Sense

as Original Music Composer

2018

عقلي

as Compositor

2015

Take Flight

as Music

2020

Weightlessness

as Original Music Composer

2024

Dance of the Seasons

as Original Music Composer

2025

Hamnet

as Original Music Composer

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