Artist artifact
Philip Glass
Minimalist composer of operas, film scores, and additive processes that made repetition a public musical language.
Biography
Minimalist composer of operas, film scores, and additive processes that made repetition a public musical language.
Influence
Brought minimalism to opera houses and movie theaters; patterned pulse became a late-20th-century vernacular.
Historical context
Minimalist composer of operas, film scores, and additive processes that made repetition a public musical language. Brought minimalism to opera houses and movie theaters; patterned pulse became a late-20th-century vernacular. Einstein on the Beach (with Robert Wilson) treated opera as duration and image as much as aria.
Associated instruments
- Piano
- Composition
- Keyboards
Specimen note
Einstein on the Beach (with Robert Wilson) treated opera as duration and image as much as aria.