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Max Richter

1966 - Today

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Max Richter (; 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, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Richter is the 567th most popular composer (up from 629th in 2019), the 2,234th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,474th in 2019) and the 88th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Max Richter ranks 567 out of 1,451. Before him are Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Louise Farrenc, Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Hans Krása, Johannes Ciconia, and Georg Christoph Wagenseil. After him are Joseph Szigeti, William Boyce, Alexandre Desplat, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, Per Nørgård, and Aloysia Weber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Max Richter ranks 63. Before him are Jorge Campos, Alberto Tomba, GZA, Oleksii Reznikov, Paulo Futre, and Erdoğan Atalay. After him are Yoshihiro Togashi, Jon Favreau, Christian Lorenz, Enzo Scifo, Matthew Fox, and Zack Snyder.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Richter ranks 2,235 out of 7,253. Before him are Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen (1760), Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (1445), Maximilian Maria, 7th Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1862), Willi Münzenberg (1889), Natalia Alexeievna (1755), and Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Brandenburg (1383). After him are Christian Ludwig II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1683), Kai Hansen (1963), Marianne Koch (1931), Fritz Wepper (1941), Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749), and Heinz-Harald Frentzen (1967).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Max Richter ranks 88. Before him are Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759), Johann David Heinichen (1683), Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918), Conradin Kreutzer (1780), Hermann Scherchen (1891), and Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741). After him are Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749), Aloysia Weber (1760), Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667), Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877), Johann Andreas Stein (1728), and Helmut Lachenmann (1935).

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