This is a list of compositions by American composer William Bolcom.

• McTeague (1991–92)
• A View from the Bridge (1997–98)
• A Wedding (2003)
• Dinner at Eight (2016)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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.^[1]

• 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

• "Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise"

• Seasons^[2]

• 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"^[3]
• 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.