Summary A major figure in the world of contemporary music, Max Richter has barely been studied by scholars. This collective book wishes to open new avenues of reflection on this fundamental composer of the early 21st century and to explore his personality in all its diversity. Although Richter's music opens up traditional musical genres, the present volume addresses the principal fields in which Richter is active: solo albums, concert hall music, ballet, film and television series music and innovative projects such as Sleep. It highlights three recurring aspects in Richter's works: history, memory and nostalgia which are to be considered key ingredients in the composer's aesthetic. Indeed, Richter displays a close relationship with the past, which he constantly revisits in order to show the present in a new light. Both musical and textual intertextuality are at the heart of his work, which borrows extensively from the classical repertoire and from Weltliteratur. Richter's postmodern approach explores the way in which the musical signified is constructed, the role music plays in our society, and the connection between music and the past and collective memory. The present volume is a broad exploration - which does not claim to be exhaustive - of these recurrent fundamental topics in Richter's production. A large team of international scholars has been assembled, coming from both minimalism and film music studies, philosophy and music performance in order to offer a variety of disciplinary perspectives on Richter's work. TABLE OF CONTENTS Delphine Vincent, Introduction Solo Albums Pwyll ap Siôn, 'Past Idols for Present Idioms': Place, Nostalgia, and Memory Palace in Max Richter's Memoryhouse Lisa Boas, Songs of Peace: Max Richter's The Blue Notebooks as an Expression of Pacifism Stéphan Etcharry, Parler, dire, chanter l'intertextualité: Présences de la voix dans les musiques de Max Richter Concert Hall Music Férdia J. Stone-Davis, Vivaldi Recomposed: Musical Borrowing, Worldmaking and Musical Listening Holly Shone, Listening to Max Richter's Recomposed: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons from an Ambient Postminimalist Perspective Ballet Viviane Waschbüsch, Réflexions sur l'esthétique postmoderne de Max Richter dans son ballet Infra Delphine Vincent, «Words Are Full of Echoes, of Memories, of Associations»: Max Richter's Immersion in Virginia Woolf's Works Holly Rogers, «The Shock of Time»: Queer Hauntings of La Folia in Max Richter's Woolf Works Film and Television Series Music Chloé Huvet, Max Richter au cinéma: faire face au vacillement du monde Florim Dupuis, Référentialité et stratégie compositionnelle: Le cas d''Erbarme dich' (Ad Astra, 2019) Florian Guilloux, Max Richter et Ari Folman : Voyages schubertiens dans les films Valse avec Bachir (2008) et Le Congrès (2013) Tristian Evans, Royalty Rewritten? Analysing Richter's Music in Mary Queen of Scots, The Crown and Bridgerton Innovative Projects Jérôme Rossi, De l'art des miroirs, de Derek Jarman et Max Richter: Reconstitution d'une performance audiovisuelle Jasmin Lootens, A Long, Long Night - Temporality in Max Richter's Sleep John Pymm, The Pictures of Poetry and the Science of Sleep: Finding Repose in Max Richter's Sleep Abstracts and Biographies Index of Names