Philip Glass | |
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Background information | |
Born | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. | January 31, 1937
Genres | |
Occupation(s) | Composer |
Discography | List of compositions |
Years active | 1964–present |
Member of | Philip Glass Ensemble |
Website | philipglass |
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century.[1][2][3][4] Glass's work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive phrases and shifting layers.[5][6] Glass describes himself as a composer of "music with repetitive structures",[7] which he has helped to evolve stylistically.[8][9]
Glass 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. Three of his film scores have been nominated for Academy Awards.
The new musical style that Glass was evolving was eventually dubbed "minimalism". Glass himself never liked the term and preferred to speak of himself as a composer of "music with repetitive structures". Much of his early work was based on the extended reiteration of brief, elegant melodic fragments that wove in and out of an aural tapestry.
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