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Philip Glass is an American composer born in 1937 who is known for pioneering a style of music called minimalism, which uses repeating patterns and structures to create hypnotic, evolving soundscapes. His influential compositions have shaped modern classical music and expanded its reach into opera, film, and popular culture over the past several decades.
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Philip Morris Glass is an American composer. He is one of the most influential music makers of the late 20th century. His music is also often controversially described as minimal music.
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- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self (archive footage)2025
- Nova '78 — Self (archive footage)2025
- Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious — Self2022
- A Place Called Music — Self2022
- War and the Weather2021
- Trophy — Himself2017
- The Last Dalai Lama? — Self2017
- The Viking of Sixth Avenue — Self2015
- What Difference Does It Make? — Self2014
- Paul Simon: Under African Skies — Self2012
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Philip Morris 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. 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. He has written 15 operas, numerous chamber operas and musical theatre works, 15 symphonies, 12 concertos, nine string quartets, various other chamber music pieces, and many film scores. He has received nominations for four Grammy Awards, including two for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Satyagraha (1987) and 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 Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), Hamburger Hill (1987), The Thin Blue Line (1988), Candyman (1992), The Truman Show (1998), and The Illusionist (2006).
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