That seems to be the name of the game in the music business these days, resulting in diminishing returns in most cases. In 2022, Richter revisited his 2012 electronic-remix hit, Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons, with The New Four Seasons - Vivaldi Recomposed, a close approximation of his earlier rework, this time performed on original instruments.How to deconstruct a celebrated suite of music, reconstruct it into something completely new, and then revisit it ten years later, using variations of the original instruments to create something that’s just as unique and individual, but also offering a listening experience that improves on the original. Four years after that, he surpassed a billion streams of his work. Richter explored musical miniatures on Songs from Before (2006) and 24 Postcards in Full Colour (2008), then waxed maximal on 2015’s eight-and-a-half-hour-long durational project Sleep. In 2004, The Blue Notebooks garnered acclaim for its electronics-augmented documentary approach and spilled over into TV and movie soundtracks. It focused on the Kosovo conflict and introduced his ongoing enthusiasm for accessibly melodic forms of protest music with serious intellectual underpinnings.

He cofounded the contemporary-classical keyboard sextet Piano Circus in 1989 and released his solo debut, Memoryhouse, in 2002.

Born in Germany in 1966 and raised in England, Richter studied at the University of Edinburgh and with Luciano Berio in Florence. Contemporary composer Max Richter built his impressive career largely by making high-concept “post-Classical” use of sophisticated electronic dance music.

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