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Meet the sleepytime composer

Meet the sleepytime composer

Bavarian Radio has a rare interview with the shy and retiring German composer Max Richter, first choice for all classical stations with a ‘relaxing’ stream.

Richter, 58, is from the Pied Piper’s town of Hamelin. Growing up in England, he met a milkman who played him music by John Cage and Philip Glass. Then he went to study in Italy with Luciano Berio, learning that ‘you were basically an idiot if you wrote tonal music’.

He now lives with his family in a forest in Oxfordshire.

Here‘s the interview.

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