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William Bolcom
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William Elden Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize and three Grammy Awards. Bolcom is a professor of music composition at the University of Michigan. He is married to mezzo-soprano Joan Morris. Bolcom was born in Seattle, Washington. At the age of 11, he entered the University of Washington to study composition privately with George Fredrick McKay and John Verall and piano with Madame Berthe Poncy Jacobson. He later studied with Darius Milhaud at Mills College while working on his Master of Arts degree, with Leland Smith at Stanford University while working on his D.M.A., and with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire, where he received the 2éme Prix de Composition. Bolcom won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1988 for 12 New Etudes for Piano. In the fall of 1994, he was named the Ross Lee Finney Distinguished University Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan, a position which he still holds. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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3 Ghost Rags: No. 1. The Graceful Ghost
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74753 Ghost Rags: No. 1, The Graceful Ghost Rag
6396Fields of Flowers
5317Graceful Ghost: Graceful Ghost
4908Raggin' Rudi
4029The Garden of Eden: I. Old Adam
40210Violin Sonata No. 2: I. Summer Dreams
389albums
William Bolcom: Piano Rags
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Complete Rags
BOLCOM: The Complete Rags
BOLCOM: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
BOLCOM: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-4
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Forest
Scott Joplin - Ragtime Piano Gems
Bolcom: Music for Solo Piano
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I Got Rhythm
BOLCOM: Songs
BOLCOM: Music for Two Pianos
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Bolcom: The 4 Sonatas for Violin and Piano