List of compositions by William Bolcom
This is a list of compositions by American composer William Bolcom.
By genre
Operas
McTeague A View from the Bridge A Wedding- ''Dinner at Eight''
Symphonies
- Symphony No. 1
- Symphony No. 2 Oracles
- Symphony No. 3 Symphony for Chamber Orchestra
- Symphony No. 4
- Symphony No. 5
- Symphony No. 6
- Symphony No. 7
- Symphony No. 8
- Symphony No. 9
- Symphony No. 1 for band
Concertos
- Piano Concerto
- Violin Concerto in D
- Fantasia Concertante
- Clarinet Concerto
- Flute Concerto Lyric Concerto
- Concerto for Two Pianos Left Hand Gaea
- Concerto Grosso for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra
- Romanza
- Trombone Concerto
- Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Band
- 2nd Piano Concerto
Piano
- Miscellaneous rags
- Three Ghost Rags
- * Graceful Ghost Rag
- * Poltergeist Rag
- * Dream Shadows Rag
- The Garden of Eden
- Twelve Etudes
- Twelve New Etudes for Piano
- Nine Bagatelles
- Nine New Bagatelles
- Bird Spirits
- Dream Music No. 1
- Fantasy-Sonata
- Ballade
- Mysteries, commissioned for the 1976 International Contemporary Organ Music Festival, premiered by William Albright.
Song cycles
- 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
Guitar
- Seasons
By year
- 1957: First Symphony
- 1964: Symphony No. 2 "Oracles"
- 1967: Black Host
- 1970: Graceful Ghost Rag
- 1971: Commedia
- 1974: The Garden of Eden
- 1979: Third Symphony
- 1956-82: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- 1978-83: "Cabaret Songs"
- 1979-1984: Gospel Preludes, for organ
- * Book IV: Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child, Sweet Hour of Prayer, and Fantasy on "O Zion Haste" and "The Church's One Foundation"
- 1984: Lilith for Alto Saxophone and Piano
- 1977-85: Cabaret Songs
- 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
- 1989: Fifth Symphony
- 1991-92: McTeague
- 1996: Cabaret Songs
- 1996: Gaea, Concerto for Two Left-Handed Pianists, and Orchestra
- 1996-97: Sixth Symphony
- 1997-98: A View from the Bridge
- 1998: Concert Suite
- 2000: Piano Quintet
- 2002: Seventh Symphony: A Symphonic Concerto
- 2003: A Wedding
- 2005: La fantome du Clavecin
- 2006: Canciones de Lorca
- 2007: Eighth Symphony
- 2007: Lucrezia
- 2008: First Symphony for Band
- 2009: Prometheus
- 2009: Romanza
- 2011: Ninth Symphony
- 2016: Dinner at Eight
- 2019: Three Miniatures, premiered by the 2020 Eastern Michigan University Honors Band.