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Browse piano sheets by Max Richter on Zen Virtual Piano. Max Richter is a composer who was born in Hamelin, Lower Saxony, West Germany. Richter trained in composition at the University of Edinburgh and then at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also worked with Luciano Berio in Italy. Richter became involved in performing minimal and post-minimal music, and he co-founded the contemporary classical ensemble Piano Circus. His birth in Hamelin and his studies in London and Italy may point to a path that crossed several places. Richter says in The Guardian that he fell in love with Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons when he was very young. It was one of the few classical records his parents owned, and he listened to it constantly. He made his 2012 record with a modern-instrument ensemble that included Daniel Hope and the Konzerthaus Orchestra of Berlin. Richter tells Classic FM that three quarters of the notes in the new score are his, and that Vivaldi's DNA is omnipresent in the work. The record in his parents' collection and the three quarters of new notes in his score may suggest a link between a childhood favorite and a rewritten work. He adds in The Guardian that there are times he departs completely from the original, but "there are moments when it pokes through." In 1994 Richter visited Lantau island, where an old Zen monastery had a gate carrying the words "Time does not exist. What is memory?" That sight sparked his interest in memory. He released his first solo album, Memoryhouse, in 2002 to critical praise, and he has produced another eight studio albums since. His 2004 album The Blue Notebooks is, in Richter's words, a protest album about the Iraq War and also a meditation on his own troubled childhood. The inscription about memory on Lantau and the title Memoryhouse may suggest a thread of memory in his work. The gate on Lantau and The Blue Notebooks may hint at a body of work in which memory and personal history sit side by side. Alongside his solo work, Richter has worked on film and television scores, producing over fifty. Studio Richter Mahr, founded in 2022 by Richter and his partner Yulia Mahr, is a studio and recording space that supports young artists. In 2026 Richter was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on the soundtrack of Hamnet. The more than fifty scores and the studio for young artists may point to work that reaches beyond his own recordings.
Browse piano sheets by Max Richter on Zen Virtual Piano.
Max Richter is a composer who was born in Hamelin, Lower Saxony, West Germany. Richter trained in composition at the University of Edinburgh and then at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also worked with Luciano Berio in Italy. Richter became involved in performing minimal and post-minimal music, and he co-founded the contemporary classical ensemble Piano Circus. His birth in Hamelin and his studies in London and Italy may point to a path that crossed several places.
Richter says in The Guardian that he fell in love with Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons when he was very young. It was one of the few classical records his parents owned, and he listened to it constantly. He made his 2012 record with a modern-instrument ensemble that included Daniel Hope and the Konzerthaus Orchestra of Berlin. Richter tells Classic FM that three quarters of the notes in the new score are his, and that Vivaldi's DNA is omnipresent in the work. The record in his parents' collection and the three quarters of new notes in his score may suggest a link between a childhood favorite and a rewritten work. He adds in The Guardian that there are times he departs completely from the original, but "there are moments when it pokes through."
In 1994 Richter visited Lantau island, where an old Zen monastery had a gate carrying the words "Time does not exist. What is memory?" That sight sparked his interest in memory. He released his first solo album, Memoryhouse, in 2002 to critical praise, and he has produced another eight studio albums since. His 2004 album The Blue Notebooks is, in Richter's words, a protest album about the Iraq War and also a meditation on his own troubled childhood. The inscription about memory on Lantau and the title Memoryhouse may suggest a thread of memory in his work. The gate on Lantau and The Blue Notebooks may hint at a body of work in which memory and personal history sit side by side.
Alongside his solo work, Richter has worked on film and television scores, producing over fifty. Studio Richter Mahr, founded in 2022 by Richter and his partner Yulia Mahr, is a studio and recording space that supports young artists. In 2026 Richter was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on the soundtrack of Hamnet. The more than fifty scores and the studio for young artists may point to work that reaches beyond his own recordings.
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Max Richter was born in Hamelin, Lower Saxony, West Germany. Max Richter studied composition at the University of Edinburgh and the Royal Academy of Music in London. In Italy he studied with Luciano Berio.
Max Richter co-founded the contemporary classical ensemble Piano Circus after becoming involved in performing minimal and post-minimal music.
Max Richter says he fell in love with Vivaldi's Four Seasons when he was very young, and he tells Classic FM that three quarters of the notes in the new score are his. He made the 2012 record with a modern-instrument ensemble.
Max Richter and his partner Yulia Mahr founded Studio Richter Mahr in 2022. It is a studio and recording space that supports young artists.