# Philip Glass (@philip-glass)

Philip Glass was a American composer whose repetitive, additive music reached opera, film, dance, and popular audiences. The work is associated with repeating figures, additive process, steady pulse, harmonic cycles, and large-scale accumulation. Major examples include Einstein on the Beach, Glassworks, the portrait operas, symphonies, and film scores. A balanced account also considers his rejection of a narrowly applied minimalist label and his unusually broad collaborative career.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Philip Glass's public record._

## Topics

- [Legacy and Context](/@philip-glass/legacy-and-context.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Major Works and Recordings](/@philip-glass/major-works.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Musical Language and Method](/@philip-glass/musical-language.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://philipglass.com/biography/
- blog: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Philip-Glass
- blog: https://www.kennedy-center.org/artists/g/ga-gn/philip-glass/

## Ask this twin

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```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "philip-glass", "question": "…"}`.