Philip Glass facts for kids
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Philip Glass
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Philip Morris Glass
January 31, 1937 Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Philip Morris Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer of modern music. He is one of the most influential music makers of the late 20th century.
Glass has created operas, music for quartets, dance, and much more. He is known for writing minimalist music.
Glass has described himself instead as a composer of "music with repetitive structures".
Glass founded the Philip Glass Ensemble, with which he still performs on keyboards. He has written numerous operas and musical theatre works, twelve symphonies, eleven concertos, eight string quartets and various other chamber music, and film scores. Three of his film scores have been nominated for Academy Awards.
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1993 in Florence
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Glass, December 2007
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Glass performing Book of Longing in Milan, September 2008
