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Philip Glass

Born: 1937-01-31 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Known For: Sound

Biography

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.

Filmography

2026

Nova '78 as Self (archive footage)
Istanbul: Chronopolis ... (Music)

2025

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self (archive footage)
Yuja Wang x David Hockney London Lightroom ... (Original Music Composer)
CHIMALMA ... (Music)
Vanessa Wagner & Friends @ Paris Sur Mesure ... (Original Music Composer)
Carolyn Carlson : Midnight Souls ... (Original Music Composer)
Concert for Notre-Dame La Tempête | Sabine Devieilhe | Olivier Latry ... (Original Music Composer)

2024

Anhedonia ... (Songs)

2023

The Pigeon Tunnel ... (Original Music Composer)
Once Within a Time ... (Original Music Composer)
You, Me, and Movies ... (Music)
Klaus Mäkelä conducts Ravel With Yuja Wang and the Orchestre de Paris ... (Original Music Composer)
Dobrawa Czocher Europavox Sessions 2023 ... (Original Music Composer)

2022

Alice ... (Original Music Composer)
Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious as Self
A Place Called Music as Self

2021

100 Foot Wave ... (Original Music Composer)
In the Penal Colony ... (Sound)
War and the Weather
LETTERS FROM A DISTANCE ... (Music)

2020

Tales from the Loop ... (Original Music Composer)
Philip Glass: Akhnaten ... (Original Music Composer)
Philip Glass and The Philip Glass Ensemble: Retrospective ... (Music)

2019

Samurai Marathon ... (Original Music Composer)
Universal Machine ... (Music)
The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten ... (Music)

2018

Paris Opera Ballet: Tribute to Jerome Robbins 2 ... (Original Music Composer)
Taniel ... (Musical)

2017

The Last Dalai Lama? as Self
Jane ... (Original Music Composer)
Crônica da Demolição ... (Original Music Composer)
The Juniper Tree ... (Music)
Trophy as Himself
07/27/1978 ... (Score Engineer)

2016

Glass - Double Concerto for Two Pianos ... (Music)

2015

Fantastic Four ... (Original Music Composer)

2014

Leviathan ... (Music)
Einstein on the Beach ... (Original Music Composer)
What Difference Does It Make? as Self

2013

Glass: Spuren der Verirrten ... (Music)
Glass: The Perfect American ... (Original Music Composer)
Visitors ... (Music)
November 22, 1963 ... (Music)
Re: Awakenings ... (Original Music Composer)

2012

The Apostle ... (Original Music Composer)
Paul Simon: Under African Skies as Self
Besa: The Promise ... (Original Music Composer)

2011

Elena ... (Original Music Composer)
Rebirth ... (Original Music Composer)
Glass: Kepler ... (Original Music Composer)
They Were There ... (Original Music Composer)
Philip Glass: Satyagraha ... (Music)
Lucinda Childs' Dance as Self

2010

Astral City: A Spiritual Journey ... (Original Music Composer)
Mr. Nice ... (Original Music Composer)
Music as Self
Trans-Action ... (Music)

2009

These Vagabond Shoes ... (Music)

2008

Patti Smith: Dream of Life as Self
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell as Self
The Song ... (Songs)
Richard Serra: Man of Steel as Self
Objects and Memory ... (Music)
Making Mishima

2007

No Reservations ... (Music)
Cassandra's Dream ... (Original Music Composer)
365 Day Project as Self
Animals in Love ... (Music)
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts as Self
Hard-Hearted ... (Music)

2006

The Illusionist ... (Original Music Composer)
Notes on a Scandal ... (Original Music Composer)
Roving Mars ... (Original Music Composer)
Refuge as Self
The Harry Smith Project Live as Self
Un leader in ascolto ... (Original Music Composer)
Phil Glass Plays for Ralph Steiner's Mechanical Principles

2005

Neverwas ... (Music)
The Moustache ... (Original Music Composer)
The Best of Secter & the Rest of Secter as Self
Kiki and Herb Reloaded as Self
Philip Glass: Looking Glass as Himself
The Giant Buddhas ... (Original Music Composer)

2004

The Culture Show as Self
Secret Window ... (Original Music Composer)
Taking Lives ... (Original Music Composer)
Undertow ... (Original Music Composer)
The Origins of AIDS ... (Music)

2003

The Fog of War ... (Original Music Composer)
Wildfire ... (Music)
Powaqqatsi: Impact of Progress as self

2002

The Hours ... (Original Music Composer)
Naqoyqatsi ... (Music)
The Baroness and the Pig ... (Original Music Composer)
Impact of Progress as Self
The Outsider: The Story of Harry Partch as Self - Interviewee
Essence of Life as Interviewee

2001

The Man in the Bath ... (Music)
In the Ocean

1999

The Source as Self
Laboratorium Anthology
The Eden Myth ... (Music)
A Brief History of Errol Morris as Self
Pointy Teeth for Pointy People ... (Music)

1998

The Truman Show as Keyboard Artist
Glass: Corvo Branco ... (Music)

1997

Classic Albums as Self
Kundun ... (Original Music Composer)
Bent ... (Original Music Composer)
Mama General ... (Original Music Composer)
Classic Albums: Paul Simon - Graceland as Self
Perfect Moment as Self

1996

The Secret Agent ... (Original Music Composer)

1995

Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh ... (Original Music Composer)
Evidence ... (Original Music Composer)
The Interview ... (Original Music Composer)
Untitled: New Blue ... (Music)

1994

The Himalayas ... (Music)
La mort de Molière ... (Music)

1993

Sara ... (Original Music Composer)
Compassion in Exile: The Story of the 14th Dalai Lama ... (Music)

1992

Candyman ... (Original Music Composer)
A Walk Through Prospero's Library ... (Music)
Mirror of the Planet ... (Original Music Composer)

1991

A Brief History of Time ... (Original Music Composer)
Closet Land ... (Music Supervisor)
Mindwalk ... (Original Music Composer)
Anima Mundi ... (Original Music Composer)

1990

John Cage: Man and Myth as Self

1989

The Church ... (Music)
Continuum: Parts 1 & 2 ... (Music Arranger)
Continuum: 1. Initiation ... (Music Arranger)

1988

The Thin Blue Line ... (Music)
Powaqqatsi ... (Music)

1987

Hamburger Hill ... (Original Music Composer)
Marias barn ... (Music)
Mallorca ... (Music)
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars
Monolithe ... (Music)

1986

In the Upper Room ... (Music)
The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July
A Perfect Couple ... (Music)
Tea with Tosh as Self
A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera as Himself
Bye Bye Kipling as Self

1985

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters ... (Original Music Composer)
Empire City ... (Original Music Composer)
Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera as composer (himself)

1983

Koyaanisqatsi ... (Original Music Composer)
Four American Composers: Philip Glass as Himself
ACT III ... (Music)
Philip Glass: Satyagraha ... (Writer)

1980

Living is a solution ... (Music)
Geometry of Circles ... (Music)

1978

1977

Carolyn I ... (Music)

1976

Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television as Self

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Musical Guest
What Maisie Knew

1971

End of the Art World ... (Music)
Anxious Automation ... (Music)
New Music: Sounds and Voices from the Avant-Garde New York 1971 as Self

1970

Isy Boukir ... (Music)

1968

Railroaded ... (Music)
Inquiring Nuns ... (Original Music Composer)
Hands Scraping

1966

Chappaqua ... (Music Supervisor)