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This is a list of compositions by American composer
William Bolcom
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By genre
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Operas
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Symphonies
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- Symphony No. 1 (1957)
- Symphony No. 2
Oracles
(1964)
- Symphony No. 3
Symphony for Chamber Orchestra
(1979)
- Symphony No. 4 (1986)
- Symphony No. 5 (1989)
- Symphony No. 6 (1996?1997)
- Symphony No. 7 (2002)
- Symphony No. 8 (2005)
- Symphony No. 9 (2012)
- Symphony No. 1 for band (2008)
Concertos
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- Piano Concerto (1976)
- Violin Concerto in D (1983)
- Fantasia Concertante (1984)
- Clarinet Concerto (1988)
- Flute Concerto
Lyric Concerto
(1992?1993)
- Concerto for Two Pianos Left Hand
Gaea
(1996)
- Concerto Grosso for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra (2000)
- Romanza (2009)
- Trombone Concerto (2016)
- Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Band (2016)
- 2nd Piano Concerto (2019)
Piano
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- Miscellaneous rags (24)
- Three Ghost Rags (1970)
- Graceful Ghost Rag
- Poltergeist Rag
- Dream Shadows Rag
- The Garden of Eden (1974)
- Twelve Etudes (1959?66)
- Twelve New Etudes for Piano
(1977?1986)
- Nine Bagatelles (1996)
- Nine New Bagatelles (2005)
- Bird Spirits (1999)
- Dream Music No. 1 (1965)
- Fantasy-Sonata (1961)
- Ballade (2008)
Organ
- Mysteries (1976), commissioned for the 1976 International Contemporary Organ Music Festival, premiered by
William Albright
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Song cycles
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- Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- Ancient Cabaret
- Briefly It Enters
- Cabaret Songs
- I Will Breathe a Mountain
- Let Evening Come
- Minicabs
- Old Addresses
- Open House
- Songs To Dance
- Three Donald Hall Songs
- A Whitman Triptych
- Morning and Evening Poems
- Medusa
- Laura Sonnets
- Chestnuts
Novelty songs
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Guitar
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By year
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- 1957: First Symphony
- 1964: Symphony No. 2 "Oracles"
- 1967: Black Host (Nonesuch H-71260)
- 1970:
Graceful Ghost Rag
- 1971: Commedia (for "Almost" 18th Century Orchestra)
- 1974: The Garden of Eden
- 1979: Third Symphony (for Chamber Orchestra)
- 1956-82:
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (William Blake)
- 1978-83: "Cabaret Songs" (Vol. 1 and 2)
- 1979-1984:
Gospel Preludes
(Books 1-4), for organ
- 1984:
Lilith
for Alto Saxophone and Piano
- 1977-85:
Cabaret Songs
(Vol. 1 and 2)
- 1984: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- 1985: Fantasia Concertante, for viola, cello and orchestra
- 1986: Fourth Symphony
- 1977-86:
Twelve New Etudes for Piano
[Winner of 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Music]
- 1989: Fifth Symphony
- 1991-92:
McTeague
(opera)
- 1996:
Cabaret Songs
(Vol. 3 and 4)
- 1996:
Gaea
, Concerto for Two Left-Handed Pianists, and Orchestra
- 1996-97: Sixth Symphony
- 1997-98:
A View from the Bridge
(opera)
- 1998:
Concert Suite (for alto saxophone and band)
- 2000: (First) Piano Quintet
- 2002: Seventh Symphony: A Symphonic Concerto
- 2003:
A Wedding
(opera)
- 2005: La fantome du Clavecin (for harpsichord)
- 2006: Canciones de Lorca
- 2007: Eighth Symphony
- 2007: Lucrezia
- 2008: First Symphony for Band
- 2009: Prometheus
- 2009: Romanza (for solo violin and string orchestra)
- 2011: Ninth Symphony
- 2016:
Dinner at Eight
(opera)
- 2019:
Three Miniatures,
premiered by the 2020 Eastern Michigan University Honors Band.
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