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Philip Glass is an acclaimed American composer and pianist who is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Known for his minimalist style and repetitive structures, Glass has composed an extensive body of work including operas, symphonies, concertos, and film scores, and has received numerous awards and nominations throughout his illustrious career.
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About the Philip Glass
Philip Glassis 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. Glass describes himself as a composer of “music with repetitive structures”, which he has helped to evolve stylistically.
He founded the Philip Glass Ensemble, which is still in existence, but Glass no longer performs with the ensemble. He has written 15 operas, numerous chamber operas and musical theatre works, 14 symphonies, 12 concertos, nine string quartets, various other chamber music pieces, and many film scores. He has received nominations for four Grammy Awards for including two for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Satyagrahaand String Quartet No. 2 (1988). He has received three Academy Award for Best Original Score nominations for Martin Scorsese’s Kundun (1997), Stephen Daldry’s The Hours (2002), and Richard Eyre’s Notes on a Scandal (2006). He also composed the scores for Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), Hamburger Hill (1987), The Thin Blue Line (1988), The Truman Show (1998), and The Illusionist (2006).
Glass is known for composing several operas such as Einstein on the Beach (1976), Satyagraha (1980), Akhnaten (1983), The Voyage (1992), and The Perfect American (2013). He also wrote the scores for Broadway productions such as the revivals of The Elephant Man (2002), The Crucible (2016), and King Lear (2019). For the later he won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play.
Over his career Glass has received several awards including a BAFTA Award, a Drama Desk Award, and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. He has also received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1995, the National Medal of Arts in 2010, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2018, and the Grammy Trustees Award in 2020.
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Philip Glass is an American composer and pianist who is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century.
Philip Glass is known for his minimalist style and compositions with repetitive structures, which he has helped to evolve stylistically.
Philip Glass has composed 15 operas, numerous chamber operas and musical theatre works, 14 symphonies, 12 concertos, nine string quartets, various other chamber music pieces, and many film scores.
Philip Glass has received numerous awards and nominations, including four Grammy Award nominations, three Academy Award nominations, and prestigious honors such as the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the National Medal of Arts, and the Kennedy Center Honors.
Philip Glass was born on January 31, 1937.
The Philip Glass Ensemble is a group founded by Philip Glass, which is still in existence, although Glass no longer performs with the ensemble.
Philip Glass has composed the scores for Broadway productions such as the revivals of The Elephant Man, The Crucible, and King Lear, for which he won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play.
3 Quotes by Philip Glass
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What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.
Philip GlassAmerican composer (born 1937)
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I travel the world, and I’m happy to say that America is still the great melting pot – maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.
Philip GlassAmerican composer (born 1937)
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Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere – everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we’re all living in different worlds because we’re on different continents.
Philip GlassAmerican composer (born 1937)