title: List of compositions by William Bolcom
text: # List of compositions by William Bolcom
  
  This is a list of compositions by American composer William Bolcom.
  
  ## By genre
  
  ### Operas
  
  * McTeague (1991–92)
  * A View from the Bridge (1997–98)
  * A Wedding (2003)
  * Dinner at Eight (2016)
  
  ### Symphonies
  
  * 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
  
  * 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
  
  * 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.
  
  ### 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
  
  * "Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise"
  
  ### Guitar
  
  * Seasons
  
  ## By year
  
  * 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
     * Book IV: Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (a reaction to Marvin Gaye's death), 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 (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.
  