Philip Glass Biography

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Philip Glass is the world's finest identified living serious composer owing to vast amounts of American recording contracts. This paper pays tribute to his greatness by detailing his life and works. The paper begins with a biography of his early life, his studies and his achievements. It then explores Glass' works and style focusing on a technique named minimalism. The "minimalistic" era was divided into three periods - early, middle and later. These periods are discussed for the impact on other composers and music genres. Finally the paper presents an excerpt on a self-criticism by Glass about his work and style.

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"Philip Glass is certainly the world's finest identified living serious composer owing to vast amounts of American recording contracts. He has a readily exclusive, if ever controversial, style that is both imitated and parodied the world over. He is familiar to pop audiences, crossover audiences, new music audiences, opera audiences and increasingly to chamber music audiences and symphony goers. He is in regular performance around the world performing with his ensemble; an output that generates around sixty concerts a year. Although he has written a fair amount of concert music, Glass has arguably won the most recognition for his work in dance, film, music theater and opera."

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