He has described himself as a “cripplingly shy” child and was obsessive about music and books. Richter was born in Hamelin, north-west Germany, but grew up in Bedford. Currently, he must surely be noted as the favoured composer of those working from home. But perhaps his most famous composition is Sleep, an “eight-hour lullaby” released in 2015 intended to accompany a full night of restfulness and which, as of July 2020, had amassed close to 500m streams. Fans of Bridgerton will be familiar with one of his best-known works, “Vivaldi Recomposed”, which he described as “throwing molecules of the original Vivaldi into a test tube with a bunch of other things, and waiting for an explosion”. Given that he can lay claim to being the world’s most-streamed “classical” composer, you will almost certainly have heard his work: Richter has written music for more than 50 film and TV projects, including HBO’s My Brilliant Friend, Tom Hardy’s Taboo and Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror. Intense, haunting, exhilarating, provocative – it often feels as if he is part-composer, part-inventor. Richter at his and Yulia Mahr’s Oxfordshire studio © Tom Jamieson
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