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Philip Glass
Born: 31st January 1937, Baltimore
Nationality: American
Philip Glass is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive phrases and shifting layers. He described himself as a composer of "music with repetitive structures", which he has helped to evolve stylistically.
Glass founded the Philip Glass Ensemble in 1968.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Glass
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Víkingur Ólafsson on Philip Glass
16th Feb 2017
James talks to Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson about his debut album on Deutsche Grammophon of music by Philip Glass.
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Popular Works: Glass, P
- Choosing Life (9)
- Company (12)
- Dance No. 4 (10)
- Dead Things (9)
- Etude No. 1 (10)
- Etude No. 2 (25)
- Etude No. 3 (10)
- Etude No. 5 (14)
- Etude No. 6 (12)
- Etude No. 9 (15)
- Etudes For Piano Nos. 1-10 (17)
- Evening Song (from Satyagraha) (9)
- Façades (29)
- Glassworks (29)
- How Now (13)
- Hymn To The Sun (from Akhnaten) (9)
- I'm Going to Make a Cake (9)
- Mad Rush (47)
- Metamorphosis (14)
- Metamorphosis I (13)
- Metamorphosis II (21)
- Metamorphosis III (15)
- Metamorphosis I-V (11)
- Metamorphosis IV (12)
- Metamorphosis V (9)
- Modern Love Waltz (23)
- Morning Passages (13)
- Music in Fifths (10)
- Opening (15)
- Opening from 'Glassworks' (12)
- String Quartet No. 2 'Company' (14)
- String Quartet No. 3 'Mishima' (15)
- String Quartet No. 5 (9)
- The Hours (9)
- The Poet Acts (22)
- Trilogy Sonata (10)
- Truman Sleeps, from 'The Truman Show' (12)
- Two Pages (10)
- Violin Concerto (11)
- Wichita Vortex Sutra (26)
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