21st Century · Open Opus catalog
John Adams
1947 – present/unknown
Chord Barn does not yet hold an IMSLP-sourced piano score collection for John Adams. This page presents the composer and work catalog data published by Open Opus, a public-domain (CC0) classical-music metadata project, so the work list below is bibliographic — titles, subtitles, and genre classifications — not a set of downloadable PDF editions.
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Works by John Adams in the Open Opus catalog
26 works · Data from Open Opus (openopus.org), released into the public domain (CC0) — fetched 2026-09-11. Catalog entries only: title, subtitle, and genre classification as published by Open Opus. These are not downloadable score editions.
By genre, from Open Opus’s own classification on this composer’s work records: 3 Keyboard · 12 Orchestral · 5 Chamber · 3 Vocal · 3 Stage.
- Berceuse élégiaque — For chamber orchestraOrchestral
- Chamber SymphonyOrchestral
- China GatesKeyboard
- Doctor Atomic — OperaStage
- Doctor Atomic SymphonyOrchestral
- Fellow Traveler — For string quartetChamber
- Grand Pianola Music — For voice, pianos, winds, brass and percussionOrchestral
- Hallelujah JunctionKeyboard
- HarmonielehreOrchestral
- Harmonium — For chorus and orchestraVocal
- I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the skyStage
- John's Book of Alleged Dances — For string quartetChamber
- Light Over Water — For brass and tapeOrchestral
- LollapaloozaOrchestral
- Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? — For piano and orchestraOrchestral
- Nixon in China — OperaStage
- Phrygian GatesKeyboard
- Road Movies — For violin and pianoChamber
- Shaker Loops — For stringsChamber
- Short Ride in a Fast MachineOrchestral
- String QuartetChamber
- The Chairman DancesOrchestral
- The Dharma at Big Sur — For electric violin and orchestraOrchestral
- The Gospel According To The Other Mary — OratorioVocal
- The Wound-Dresser — For baritone and orchestraVocal
- Violin ConcertoOrchestral