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This composer played his music for the video game Enemy Zero over footage from his film archives for a 2010 shot-by-shot remake of Man with a Movie Camera. For a sci-fi film, this composer digitally added extra chords to Schubert’s Impromptu in G-flat major, thus making it impossible to play without having 12 fingers. The soundtracks of The Trip and the Philippe Petit documentary Man on Wire draw from this composer’s film music, such as the soprano saxophone melody “Chasing Sheep Is Best Left to Shepherds.” This composer scored (15[1])Gattaca after the success of a film in which his Dickinson-inspired piece “The Heart Asks (*) Pleasure First” (10[1])was performed by actress Holly Hunter. Henry Purcell inspired this composer’s scores for films by a painter-turned-director, like The Draughtsman’s Contract and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. For 10 points, the scores for The Piano and several films by Peter Greenaway are by what minimalist composer? ■END■

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