Max Richter: The man who brings the Zzz factor this World Sleep Day
Max Richter slept wonderfully, thank you. ‘I mean, I’m very lucky as far as sleep is concerned,’ says the Germany-born, England-raised composer, 56, with the serenity of someone who never finds himself scrolling through Instagram Reels at 1.39am, who is never tormented by regrets at 4.36am, and whose three children are long past the age of screaming ‘iPad!’ at 6.23am. ‘I go to bed and I’m asleep two seconds later. I basically always sleep well and I recognise that as a great privilege.’
Bastard. But I reckon I would sleep well if I were Max Richter, who seems extraordinarily composed for someone whose music is so full of melancholy. Perched on a sofa in his net-zero ‘art farm’ — a highbrow dream of a recording studio in rural Oxfordshire — he is something that is not supposed to exist: a composer to at ; soundtracked more than 50 pieces of TV and film (
