Philip Glass Masterpieces
American composer and pianist
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- bass, drum kit, piano
- dixieland, opera, symphony
- United States of America
- composer, film score composer, librettist, musician, pianist, supporting actor
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Essential works
Creative activity
based on dated works only
Duration of the works
(average or estimed)
Number of works
1952
58 years
2009
Number of works
Duration of the works (average or estimed)
not qualified (2)
Work for choir (12)
Song, lied (4)
Opera (17)
Work for soloist (24)
Work for chamber orchestra (58)
Work for orchestra (17)
Work for orchestra with soloist (9)
not qualified (6)
Ballet (1)
Theatrical music (16)
Film score (36)
Other renowned works
2005 - Waiting for the Barbarians
1989 - Itaipu
1988 - 1000 Airplanes on the Roof
1984 - The Juniper Tree
1982 - Glassworks
This selection of works is not the result of personal preferences or artistic opinion. Selected works come from an exclusive data analysis method developed by soclassiq.
The dating of the works can be precise or sometimes approximate. It may correspond to the premiere date or publication year or completion of the composition (that can be several years after its first public execution).
1930 .. 2020 : the essential composers
1882-1971 Igor Stravinsky °
1865-1957 Jean Sibelius °
1873-1943 Sergei Rachmaninoff °
1928-2020 Ennio Morricone
1875-1937 Maurice Ravel °
1863-1945 Pietro Mascagni
1903-1989 Vladimir Horowitz
1881-1945 Béla Bartók °
1935-oooo Arvo Pärt
1866-1949 Richard Strauss °
1906-1975 Dmitri Shostakovich °
1918-1990 Leonard Bernstein
° : Masterpieces listed
On stage or recorded, listen these essential works Philip Glass
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Currently, 25000+ works are listed for a small selection of 101 composers among thousands listed here. Many composers are missing of which some are essential: J. Rodriguo, C. Franck, H. Gorecki, C. Nielsen, J.Corigliano, P. Hindemith, C. Ives, A. Webern ... New catalogues will be processed later to complete this experience of the discovery of the classical music masterpieces. Thus this selection of works will be updated.
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Concerto, Symphony, Rhapsody, Sonata, Lied, Mass, Suite, Trio, Quartet, Quintet, Waltz, March, Operetta, ...
Composed for piano, harpsichord, organ, violin, cello, viola, flute, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, string orchestra, string quartet, ...
The purpose of these pages is to point out few relevant works only among tens of thousands and to provide some chronological references.