# 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.