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The Doleful Minimalism of Max Richter | The New Yorker

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The composer is everywhere on film and television soundtracks, promising that we will dissolve in mist before the apocalypse arrives.

Save this story Save this story The film scores of John Williams are beloved by untold millions. Philip Glass ’s name is known to a good fraction of the population. Arvo Pärt ’s sonic visions entrance audiences around the world. But, if cultural relevance is measured in sheer saturating ubiquity, the composer of our moment is the fifty-seven-year-old British minimalist Max Richter, who, according to his record label, Deutsche Grammophon, has produced the “most streamed classical record of all time.” That album, released in 2015, is titled “Sleep.” It lasts eight and a half hours and is designe

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