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Renaissance

Wacław of Szamotuły

Wacław z Szamotuł (c. 1520 in Szamotuły, near Poznań – c. 1560 in Pińczów), also known as Wacław Szamotulski (), was a Polish composer. Life Wacław z Szamotuł was a student at the Lubrański Academy

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Wade Hemsworth

Albert Wade Hemsworth (October 23, 1916 – January 19, 2002) was a Canadian folk singer and songwriter. Although he was not a prolific composer, having written only about 20 songs during his entire

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Wadia Sabra

Wadia (Wadih) Sabra ( ; 23 February 1876 – 11 April 1952) was a Lebanese composer and founder of the Conservatoire Libanais. Life Wadia (Wadih) Sabra was born in 1876 in the village of Ain el Jdideh

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Walburga Willmann

Walburga Willmann (full name Maximiliana Valentina Walburga Willmann; 18 May 1769 – 27 June 1835) Ignaz became in 1767 a member of the chamber orchestra of the Elector of Cologne in Bonn. The family

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Waldemar von Baußnern

Waldemar Edler von Baußnern (also Baussnern or Bausznern; 29 November 1866 – 20 August 1931) was a German composer and music teacher. Life Born in Berlin, and descended from Transylvanian Saxons,

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Walford Davies

Major Sir Henry Walford Davies (6 September 1869 – 11 March 1941) was a renowned English composer, organist, and educator who was Master of the King's Music from 1934 until 1941. He was also a music

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Wallace Arthur Sabin

Wallace Arthur Sabin (December 15, 1869 – December 8, 1937) was a composer and organist, born in Culworth, Northamptonshire, England. He played organ from the age of 13 at various schools and

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Wallace Southam

Thomas Wallace Southam (11 October 190014 May 1990) was an executive in the oil industry and an amateur composer. He composed art songs, including some jazz settings of classic and contemporary

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Wallingford Riegger

Wallingford Constantine Riegger ( ; April 29, 1885 – April 2, 1961) was an American modernist composer and pianist, best known for his orchestral and modern dance music. He was born in Albany,

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Walt Wagner

Walt Wagner (born 1943) is an American pianist, composer, and arranger. He is based in Seattle, Washington. He is most recently known as the longtime pianist for Seattle restaurant Canlis. Wagner

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Walter Abendroth

Walter Fedor Georg Abendroth (29 May 1896 in Hanover – 30 September 1973 in Fischbachau) was a German composer, editor, and writer on music. Life Walter Abendroth was born in the Lower Saxon city of

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Walter Arlen

Walter Arlen (; July 31, 1920 – September 2, 2023) was an Austrian and American composer, focused on songs for voice and piano. Just after completing school, he fled the Nazi regime in Vienna for the

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Walter Beckett (composer)

Walter Keohler Beckett (27 July 1914 – 3 April 1996) was an Irish composer, teacher and music critic. He was a cousin of the writer Samuel Beckett. Life Beckett was born in Dublin. His parents were

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Walter Boudreau

Walter Boudreau, (born 1947 in Sorel) is a Canadian composer, saxophonist and conductor. In 1969, he founded the group L'Infonie with Raoul Duguay, which dissolved in 1973. Since 1988, he has been

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Walter Braunfels

Walter Braunfels (; 19 December 1882 – 19 March 1954) was a German composer, pianist, and music educator. Life Walter Braunfels was born in Frankfurt. His first music teacher was his mother, the

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Walter Bricht

Walter Bricht (September 21, 1904 – March 20, 1970) was an Austrian-American pianist, composer and teacher. Early life Born in Vienna, Bricht was exposed to multiple musical influences from his

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Walter Buczynski

Walter Joseph Buczynski (born 17 December 1933) is a Canadian composer, teacher, and pianist. Born in Toronto, Buczynski earned an Associate diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music in 1951 and a

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Walter Courvoisier

Walter Courvoisier (7 February 1875 – 27 December 1931) was a Swiss composer. Life Born in Riehen, Courvoisier was a son of the surgeon Ludwig Georg Courvoisier. He initially studied medicine and

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Walter Damrosch

Walter Johannes Damrosch (January 30, 1862 – December 22, 1950) was a Prussian and American conductor and composer. He was the director of the New York Symphony Orchestra and conducted the world

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Walter Draeger

Walter Draeger (14 December 1888 – 24 January 1976) was a German composer and music educator. Er war Professor an der and the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. In 1955, war er Mitinitiator

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Walter English

Walter Paul "Woody" English (March 20, 1867 – June 4, 1916) was an American composer, conductor, and tubist. Life and career Walter Paul English was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory in 1867. He

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Walter Frye

Walter Frye (died 1474?) was an English composer of the early Renaissance. Life Nothing certain is known about his life. He may have been a "Walter Cantor" at Ely Cathedral between 1443 and 1466, and

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Walter Goehr

Walter Goehr (; 28 May 19034 December 1960) was a German composer and conductor who from 1937, lived and worked in the UK. He was the father of composer Alexander Goehr. Biography Goehr was born in

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Walter Hekster

Walter Hekster (29 March 1937 – 31 December 2012) was a Dutch composer, clarinetist and conductor of classical music, specialising in contemporary classical music. Biography Hekster graduated from

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Walter Hus

Walter Hus (born July 2, 1959) is a Belgian composer and musician. He studied at the music conservatories in Ghent and Brussels. In 1984, he graduated with excellence (Diplôme supérieur) for piano

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Walter Jurmann

Walter Jurmann (October 12, 1903 – June 17, 1971) was an Austrian-born composer of popular music renowned for his versatility who, after immigrating to the United States, specialized in film scores

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Walter Kaufmann (composer)

Walter Kaufmann (1 April 1907 – 9 September 1984) was a Bohemian-born American composer, conductor, ethnomusicologist, librettist and educator. Born in Karlsbad, Bohemia (then part of

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Walter Kent

Walter Kent (born Walter Maurice Kaufman, November 29, 1911 – March 2, 1994) was an American composer and conductor. Some notable compositions are: "I'll Be Home for Christmas", "I'm Gonna Live Till

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Walter Kollo

Walter Kollo (28 January 1878 – 30 September 1940) was a German composer of operettas, Possen mit Gesang, and Singspiele as well as popular songs. He was also a conductor and a music publisher. Life

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Walter Leigh

Walter Leigh (22 June 190512 June 1942) was an English composer. Leigh is best known for his Concertino for harpsichord and string orchestra, written in 1934. Other famous works include the overture

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Walter MacNutt

Walter Louis MacNutt (2 June 1910 – 10 August 1996) was a Canadian organist, choir director, and composer. His compositional output includes numerous choral works, songs, pieces for solo organ, and

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Walter Mair

Walter Christian Mair (born 17 December 1978) is an Austrian-born composer. Biography Mair has created scores for feature films, television drama, commercials, and narrative-driven interactive

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Walter Niemann (composer)

Walter Rudolph Niemann (10 October 1876 – 17 June 1953) was a German composer, arranger, and music critic. Life Born in Hamburg, Niemann was the son of composer and virtuoso pianist Rudolph Niemann

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Walter Piston

Walter Hamor Piston, Jr. (January 20, 1894 – November 12, 1976), was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University. Life Piston was born in

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Walter Rabl

Walter Rabl (30 November 1873 in Vienna – 11 July 1940 in Klopein, Klopeiner See/Carinthia) was a Viennese composer, conductor, and teacher of vocal music. Largely forgotten today, Rabl left only a

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Walter S. Hartley

Walter Sinclair Hartley (February 21, 1927 – June 30, 2016) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. Life and career He was born in Washington, D.C., began composing at age five and

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Walter Schumann

Walter Schumann (October 8, 1913 – August 21, 1958) was an American composer for film, television, and the theater. His notable works include the score for The Night of the Hunter and the Dragnet

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Walter Steffens (composer)

Walter Steffens (born 31 October 1934) is a German composer. He is noted for the diversity of his creative works, but has specialised in opera, such as Eli, as well as music inspired by paintings.

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Walter Thomas Heyn

Walter Thomas Heyn (born 14 November 1953) is a German guitarist, composer and music producer. Life Born in Görlitz, Heyn was initially musically self-taught. From the age of fourteen he played

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Walter Thompson (composer)

Walter Thompson (born May 31, 1952, in West Palm Beach, Florida) is a composer, pianist, saxophonist, percussionist, and educator, also known for creating the multidisciplinary live composing sign

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Walther von der Vogelweide

Walther von der Vogelweide (; c. 1170) was a Minnesänger who composed and performed love-songs and political songs (Sprüche) in Middle High German. Walther has been described as the greatest German

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Wanda Warska

Wanda Małolepsza (28 April 1930 – 6 July 2019), known professionally as Wanda Warska, was a Polish jazz singer and composer who worked with her husband Andrzej Kurylewicz and was nicknamed the "First

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Wang Hesheng (composer)

Wang Hesheng (; born Luoyang, 27 December 1955 ) is a composer of the Military Band of the People's Liberation Army of China, also a member of Chinese Musicians Association. In 1985, he studied

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Wang Jianzhong

Wang Jianzhong (; 1933–2016) was a Chinese composer, pianist, and educator. His works, many of them composed during the Cultural Revolution, bridge Chinese folk music and Western classical piano

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Wang Lu (composer)

Wang Lu (born 1982) is a Chinese composer. She is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow and has released two solo albums. She is an assistant professor of music at Brown University. Biography Wang Lu was born in

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Wang Qiang (composer)

Wang Qiang (, born 1935 in Shandong) is a Chinese composer. Biography Wang Qiang began her study of composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1955. As a third-year student she won first

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Wang Xilin

Wang Xilin (; born December 13, 1936) is a Chinese composer. Life Wang was born in Kaifeng, Henan province and spent his childhood in Pingliang in the Gansu Province. When he was 12 he taught himself

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Wang Ying (composer)

Wang Ying (; born September 10, 1976) is a Chinese-born composer based in Berlin. Life Wang Ying was born in Shanghai, China. She began her musical education at the age of four, receiving piano

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Warren Benson

Warren Frank Benson (January 26, 1924 – October 6, 2005) was an American composer. His compositions consist mostly of music for wind instruments and percussion. His most notable piece is titled The

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Warren Burt

Warren Burt (born 10 October 1949) is an Australia-based composer of American birth. He is known for composing in a wide variety of new music styles, ranging from acoustic music, electroacoustic

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Warren Cohen (composer)

Warren Cohen is a Canadian composer, conductor and pianist is the musical director of the MusicaNova Orchestra, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, which is identified by its mission statement ('musica

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Warren Schatz

Warren Schatz, born in New York City, Brooklyn (November 3, 1945) is a prominent producer, arranger and orchestra conductor during the 1970s. Warren Schatz is famous for composing, producing,

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Wasif Jawhariyyeh

Wasif Jawhariyyeh (; 14 January 1897 – 1972) was a Palestinian composer, oud player, poet and chronicler. He is known for his memoirs, The Diaries of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, that spans over six decades

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Wassily Gerassimez

Wassily Gerassimez (born 21 June 1991 in Essen) is a German cellist and composer. His parents were born in Germany and worked, just like his brothers Nicolai and Alexej, as professional musicians.

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Wayan Yudane

I Wayan Gde Yudane (born 1963 or 1964) is a gangsa player and an exponent of Balinese music in New Zealand. Yudane learnt to play gamelan from his father, an architect and gamelan instrument maker.

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Wayne Barlow

Wayne Brewster Barlow (September 6, 1912, in Elyria, Ohio – December 17, 1996, in Rochester, NY) was an American composer of classical music. He was also a professor of music, organist, and choir

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Wayne Oquin

Wayne Oquin (born December 9, 1977) is an American composer of orchestral, choral, chamber, and wind band music. In 2020, the Nashville Symphony announced the premiere recording of Oquin's Resilience

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Władysław Daniłowski

Władysław Daniłowski (also known by his pseudonyms Władysław Dan and Walter Dana, April 26, 1902 – March 4, 2000) was a Polish and American pianist, composer and singer. A pioneer of jazz and tango

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Władysław Szpilman

Władysław Szpilman (; 5 December 1911 – 6 July 2000) was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the Roman Polanski film

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Władysław Żeleński (composer)

Władysław Marcjan Mikołaj Żeleński (6 July 1837 – 23 January 1921) was a Polish composer, pianist and organist. Life Żeleński was born in Grodkowice into a landowner family. When he was eight, his

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