Philip Glass



First NamePhilip
Last NameGlass
Age75
Date of BirthJanuary 31, 1937
Height5' 8½" (174 cm)
Star SignAquarius
Occupation CategoryComposer
Music GenreClassical
Music StyleNew Age, World Fusion, Jazz, Ethnic Fusion, Minimalism, Modern Composition, Stage & Screen, Soundtracks, Original Score, Avant-Garde, Opera
Music MoodCerebral, Ambitious, Circular, Epic, Complex, Elegant, Sophisticated, Restrained, Uncompromising, Calm/Peaceful, Reserved
InstrumentComposer, Conductor, Keyboards
  • Philip Glass
  • Philip Glass
  • Philip Glass
  • Philip Glass
  • Philip Glass

Philip Morris Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American music composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public (along with precursors such as Richard Strauss, Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein).


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Discography

2010
Violin Concerto No. 2 "The American Four Seasons"

2010
String Quartets Nos. 1-4

2010
Itaipu And Three Songs For Choir A Capella

2009
A Madrigal Opera

2009
In The Upper Room

2008
Neverwas

2007
Dracula

2007
Book Of Longing

2007
Monsters Of Grace

2007
Notes On A Scandal - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

2006
The Concerto Project Vol. II: Piano Concerto No. 2, After Lewis And Clark | Concerto For Harpsichord And Orchestra

2005
Glass Cuts (Philip Glass: Remixed)

2004
Symphonies Nos. 2 And 3

2004
The Concerto Project Vol. I: Concerto For Cello And Orchestra - Concerto Fantasy For Two Timpanists And Orchestra

2004
The Hours

2002
Naqoyqatsi

2002
The Hours - Music From The Motion Picture

2001
Early Keyboard Music

2000
Piano Music Of Philip Glass

2000
Symphony No. 3

2000
Symphony No.5 - Requiem, Bardo, Nirmanakaya

1999
Piano Music

1997
Kundun (Music From The Original Soundtrack)

1997
"Heroes" Symphony

1995
Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass

1993
Glass Organ Works - Music Of Philip Glass

1993
Itaipu / The Canyon

1993
"Low" Symphony

1993
Hydrogen Jukebox

1993
Violin Concerto / Concerto Grosso No. 5

1992
Music From The Screens

1989
1000 Airplanes On The Roof

1989
Solo Piano

1988
Powaqqatsi

1988
The Thin Blue Line

1988
Music In Twelve Parts

1987
DancePieces

1987
Akhnaten

1987
DancePieces

1986
Songs From Liquid Days

1985
Mishima

1985
Satyagraha

1983
Koyaanisqatsi

1983
The Photographer

1982
Glassworks

1980
Dance Nos. 1 And 3

1979
Einstein On The Beach

1977
North Star

1975
Solo Music

1974
Music In Twelve Parts - Parts 1 & 2

1973
Music In Similar Motion / Music In Fifths

1971
Music With Changing Parts

Filmography

Selected Philip Glass film and TV show credits:


Composer Credits

2012
Stoker
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2011
They Were There
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2011
Rebirth
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2011
Elena
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2010
Mr. Nice
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2010
Nosso Lar
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2010
O Apóstolo
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2010
Kepler
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2009
Transcendent Man
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2009
Les regrets
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2008
What Are You Looking For?
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2008
Objects and Memory
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2007
Cassandra's Dream
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2007
Hard-Hearted
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2007
No Reservations
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2007
Animals in Love
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2007
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
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2007
Repeat
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2007
Little Things
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2006
Imaginary Friend
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2006
Notes on a Scandal
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2006
The Illusionist
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2006
A Broken Sole
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2006
Roving Mars
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2006
The Seeds
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2006
Black Box: UFO Secrets
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2006
El drama de la memoria
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2006
Abused
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2005
Faith's Corner
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2005
La moustache
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2005
Neverwas
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2005
Disparait, v.
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2005
The Giant Buddhas
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2004
Secret Window
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2004
Taking Lives
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2004
Undertow
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2004
Aztec Legend
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2004
Battlestar Galactica
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2004
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
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2004
The Origins of AIDS
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2003
Pandemic: Facing AIDS
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2003
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
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2002
The Baroness and the Pig
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2002
The Hours
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2002
Naqoyqatsi
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2002
Passage
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2001
Diaspora
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2001
The Man in the Bath
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2001
L'anima in luce
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2000
Armonie dell'Estasi
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1999
The Eden Myth
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1999
The Source
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1999
Sin ceder
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1999
Le corset
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1998
Fast Track
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1997
Bent
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1997
Kundun
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1997
Ballad of the Skeletons
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1996
The Secret Agent
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1996
Absence Stronger Than Presence
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1996
Départ immédiat
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1995
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
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1995
Evidence
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1995
The Interview
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1995
Journey to Enlightenment
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1995
Impetus Apaches
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1994
3000 scénarios contre un virus
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1993
Compassion in Exile: The Life of the 14th Dalai Lama
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1992
Candyman
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1992
Anima Mundi
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1992
Arctic, The
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1992
Privé de vieillesse
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1992
Mirror of the Planet
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1991
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
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1991
A Brief History of Time
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1990
Mindwalk
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1989
The Church
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1988
Powaqqatsi
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1988
The Thin Blue Line
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1987
Hamburger Hill
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1987
Monolithe
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1986
Dead End Kids
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1986
The Kitchen Presents Two Moon July
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1985
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
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1985
Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera
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1985
Empire City
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1984
High Wire
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1983
Four American Composers
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1982
Koyaanisqatsi
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1978
North Star: Mark di Suvero
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1971
End of the Art World
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1970
Marco
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1968
Inquiring Nuns
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1931
Dracula
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Music Department Credits

2010
When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun
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2010
O Apóstolo
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2009
These Vagabond Shoes
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2006
Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD
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2005
Night Stalker
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2005
The Colbert Report
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2005
The Loss
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2004
Yes
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2003
Rua Alguem 5555: My Father
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2001
Haj med luftpost
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2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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1998
The Truman Show
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1991
Closet Land
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1985
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
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1983
Satyagraha
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1966
Chappaqua
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Hope
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Soundtrack Credits

2010
Catfish
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2010
La rafle.
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2009
Watchmen
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2009
Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain
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2009
Certainty
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2008
Embrión
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2008
What Are You Looking For?
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2007
Repeat
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2006
Absolute Wilson
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2006
Counting Water
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2005
The Giant Buddhas
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2004
House M.D.
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2004
Declaring Genius
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2003
The Barbarian Invasions
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2003
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
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2002
The Hours
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2002
How to Draw a Bunny
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2001
The Pornographer
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2001
Scrubs
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2001
Six Feet Under
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2000
Aleph, lectures contades
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2000
Condo Painting
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1999
Independent Lens
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1999
One Day in September
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1998
Beware of My Love
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1998
The Pear Tree
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1998
The Truman Show
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1991
'Merci la vie'
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1991
A Grande Arte
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1989
The Church
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1983
Breathless
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1946
Beauty and the Beast
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