WI
Composers whose names start with WI.
Widens Pkolo Dorsainville
Widens Dorsainville, known professionally as Pkolo is a Haitian producer, actor and composer record executive and artist. His production work includes the movie A United Kingdom Early life
Read → 20th CenturyWiktor Łabuński
Wiktor Łabuński (April 4, 1895 – January 26, 1974), was a Polish-American pianist, conductor and composer. He came to the United States in 1928, where he made his debut as a pianist at Carnegie Hall.
Read → 21st CenturyWila Frank
Wila Frank, ( ; born Wilhelmina Frankzerda; April 2, 1998) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer known for her ethereal and cinematic folk music. Her debut album, Black Cloud, has
Read → Late RomanticWilfred Bendall
Wilfred Ellington Bendall (22 April 1850–16 June 1920) was an English composer, pianist, conductor, arranger and teacher. After musical studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Leipzig
Read → 20th CenturyWilfred Heaton
__NOTOC__ John Wilfred Heaton (2 December 1918 – 20 May 2000) was an English composer, conductor and teacher, best known for his brass band music and for his long association with the Salvation Army.
Read → Post-WarWilfred Josephs
Wilfred Josephs (24 July 1927 – 17 November 1997) was an English composer. Life Born in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, the fourth and youngest son of Russian and South Shields Jewish parents, Wilfred
Read → 20th CenturyWilfrid Mellers
Wilfrid Howard Mellers (26 April 1914 – 17 May 2008) was an English music critic, musicologist and composer. Early life Born in Leamington, Warwickshire, Mellers was educated at the local Leamington
Read → 20th CenturyWilfrid Pelletier
Joseph Louis Wilfrid Pelletier (sometimes spelled Wilfred), (20 June 1896 – 9 April 1982) was a Canadian conductor, pianist, composer, and arts administrator. He was instrumental in establishing the
Read → Late RomanticWilfrid Sanderson
Wilfrid Ernest Sanderson FRCO LRAM (23 December 1878 – 10 December 1935) was a composer and organist based in Doncaster. Life Sanderson was born in Ipswich. His father was Revd. Thomas Sanderson, a
Read → Post-WarWilfrido Vargas
Wilfrido Radamés Vargas Martínez (; born 24 April 1949) is a Dominican musician, composer, arranger and band leader. He was surrounded by musical influences; namely, his father Ramón, an accordionist
Read → Post-WarWilfried Hiller
Wilfried Hiller (born 15 March 1941) is a German composer. He became known above all for his stage works for families, children and young people. Life and work Hiller was born the son of the teacher
Read → Post-WarWilfried Krätzschmar
Wilfried Krätzschmar (born 23 March 1944) is a German composer. Life Born in Dresden, Krätzschmar received piano lessons from 1952. After his Abitur at the he studied composition with Johannes Paul
Read → ClassicalWilhelm Adolph
Wilhelm Balthasar Adolph (1729 –1781) was a German composer of liturgical music in galant style, cantor and rector (schoolmaster) of catholic parish schools in Świebodzin and Góra. Biography Born a
Read → Late RomanticWilhelm Berger
Wilhelm Reinhard Berger (9 August 1861 – 16 January 1911) was a German composer, pianist and conductor. Life Berger's father, originally a merchant from Bremen, worked in Boston (where Berger was
Read → RomanticWilhelm Fitzenhagen
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Fitzenhagen (15 September 1848 – 14 February 1890) was a German cellist, composer and teacher, best known today as the dedicatee of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Variations on a
Read → ClassicalWilhelm Friedemann Bach
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (22 November 17101 July 1784) was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach.
Read → ClassicalWilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach
Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, also known as William Bach (24 May 1759 – 25 December 1845) was the eldest son of Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach and the only grandson of Johann Sebastian Bach to gain
Read → 20th CenturyWilhelm Furtwängler
Gustav Heinrich Ernst Martin Wilhelm Furtwängler ( , ; ; 25 January 188630 November 1954) was a German conductor and composer. He is regarded as one of the greatest symphonic and operatic conductors
Read → 20th CenturyWilhelm Grosz
Wilhelm Grosz (11 August 1894 – 10 December 1939), sometimes credited as Hugh Williams, was an Austrian composer, pianist, and conductor, who from 1934, worked in the UK, before moving to the USA in
Read → BaroqueWilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel
Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel (baptized 29 August 1686 – 6 June 1764) was a German composer and organist, the elder son of Johann Pachelbel. Life He was born in Erfurt, Electorate of Mainz, and spent
Read → RomanticWilhelm Hill
Johann Wilhelm Hill (28 March 1838 – 6 June 1902) was a German pianist and composer. Life and work Wilhelm Hill was born in Fulda. He began studying piano and violin with his father at 6 years old.
Read → 20th CenturyWilhelm Keilmann
Wilhelm Martin Keilmann (4 August 1908 – 14 November 1989) was a German pianist, Kapellmeister and composer. He composed 74 works, founded a chamber orchestra and was lecturer at the . Life Born in
Read → Late RomanticWilhelm Kienzl
Wilhelm Kienzl (17 January 1857 – 3 October 1941) However, during the Nazi era there were calls for boycotting his music due to his part Jewish ancestry In 1936 he was placed in the black list of the
Read → Post-WarWilhelm Killmayer
Wilhelm Killmayer (21 August 1927 – 20 August 2017) was a German composer of classical music, a conductor and an academic teacher of composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München from
Read → RomanticWilhelm Kuhe
Wilhelm Kuhe (10 December 1823 – 8 October 1912) was a Czech pianist and piano teacher, composer and administrator born in the city of Prague (modern-day Czech Republic), in the first half of the
Read → RomanticWilhelm Mayer (composer)
Wilhelm Mayer (10 June 183122 January 1898) was an Austro-Bohemian composer who published his works under the name W. A. Rémy. He was also a noted teacher, whose pupils included Ferruccio Busoni and
Read → Late RomanticWilhelm Middelschulte
Wilhelm Middelschulte (April 3, 1863, Werve, Kreis Hamm, now part of Kamen – May 4, 1943, Dortmund) was a German organist and composer who resided in America for most of his career. Life
Read → Early RomanticWilhelm Neuland
Wilhelm Neuland (14 July 1806 – 28 December 1889) was a German musician and composer of the Romantic era, with activities mainly in Bonn (Kingdom of Prussia), London (UK) and Calais (France). Life
Read → Late RomanticWilhelm Peterson-Berger
Olof Wilhelm Peterson-Berger ( 27 February 1867 – 3 December 1942) was a Swedish composer and music critic. As a composer, his main musical influences were Grieg, August Söderman and Wagner as well
Read → RomanticWilhelm Ramsøe
Wilhelm Ramsøe (7 February 1837 – 15 April 1895) was a Danish composer, musician and conductor. Biography Emilio Wilhelm Ramsøe was born in Copenhagen, the second of five children. His father,
Read → 21st CenturyWilhelm Schröter
Wilhelm Schröter is a composer and pianist. Schröter was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 16, 1960. Biography Schröter was born into a family of musicians. His father, Harry, was a violinist
Read → Late RomanticWilhelm Stenhammar
Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar (February 7, 1871 – November 20, 1927) was a Swedish composer, conductor and pianist. He is considered to be one of Sweden's most important composers at the turn of the
Read → RomanticWilhelm Taubert
Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert (23 March 1811 – 7 January 1891) was a German pianist, composer, and conductor, and the father of philologist and writer Emil Taubert. Life Born in Berlin, Taubert
Read → 20th CenturyWilhelm Weismann
Wilhelm Weismann (20 September 1900 – 14 May 1980) was a German composer and musicologist. Life On 20 September, Weismann was born in Alfdorf/Württemberg on the plateau of Welzheim forest. His
Read → Early RomanticWilhelm Würfel
Wilhelm Würfel, aka Wenzel Würfel (, ; May 6, 1790 - March 23, 1832) was a Czech composer, pianist and conductor. Life He was born in 1790 in Plaňany near Kolín in central Bohemia. His father was a
Read → RomanticWilhelmina Koch
Wilhelmina (Mina or Minna) Amalie Koch (22 February 1845 – 6 March 1924) was a German composer of sacred and secular song melodies, biblical motets and choral and instrumental music. She is one of
Read → Early RomanticWilhelmine von Troschke und Rosenwehrt
Wilhelmine Auguste Charlotte Helene Apollonia von Troschke und Rosenwerth (1775-1830) was born in Lower Silesia and is considered to be a German composer. She published piano music under the name
Read → BaroqueWilhelmine, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia (Friederike Sophie Wilhelmine; 3 July 170914 October 1758) was a Prussian princess and composer. She was the eldest daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and
Read → Late RomanticWill C. Macfarlane
William Charles Macfarlane, generally referred to as Will C. Macfarlane, While he predominantly composed sacred music, he also wrote the music to the operettas Little Almond Eyes (1917) and Swords
Read → 20th CenturyWill Eisenmann
Will Eisenmann (3 March 1906 in Stuttgart – 20 August 1992 in Canton of Lucerne) was a German-Swiss composer. His opera Der König der dunklen Kammer, based on a work by Rabindranath Tagore, won the
Read → Post-WarWill Gay Bottje
Will Gay Bottje (June 30, 1925; Grand Rapids, Michigan - January 7, 2018; Grand Rapids, Michigan ) was an American composer known for his contributions to electronic music. Bottje was a graduate of
Read → Post-WarWill Ogdon
Wilbur Lee "Will' Ogdon (April 19, 1921 – October 6, 2013) was an American composer. He long taught at the University of California, San Diego, from 1966 to 1991. Life and career Will Ogdon was born
Read → Post-WarWill Schaefer
Willis H. Schaefer (November 23, 1928 – June 30, 2007) was an American composer nominated for an Emmy Award for his work. He wrote background music for a number of popular television shows and
Read → 20th CenturyWillem Andriessen
Willem Andriessen (Haarlem, October 25, 1887 – Amsterdam, March 29, 1964) was a Dutch pianist and composer. His compositional output was small due to the demands of performance and teaching, but he
Read → Post-WarWillem Breuker
Willem Breuker (4 November 1944 – 23 July 2010) was a Dutch bandleader, composer, arranger, saxophonist, and clarinetist. Career During the mid-1960s, he played with percussionist Han Bennink and
Read → BaroqueWillem de Fesch
Willem de Fesch (; 1687 in Alkmaar – 3 January 1761) was a virtuoso Dutch violinist and composer. The pupil of Karel Rosier, who was a Vice-Kapellmeister at Bonn, de Fesch later married his daughter,
Read → Late RomanticWillem Kes
Willem Kes (Dordrecht, 16 February 1856 – München, 22 February 1934, was a Dutch conductor, composer, violist, and violinist. He was the first principal conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra of
Read → 21st CenturyWilli Vogl
Willi Vogl (born 3 December 1961) is a German composer, clarinetist and college scholar. Life Vogl was born in Reichertshofen and grew up in Karlskron. From 1983 to 1989 he studied musical
Read → Post-WarWilliam Albright (musician)
William Hugh Albright (October 20, 1944 – September 17, 1998) was an American composer, pianist and organist. Biography Albright was born in Gary, Indiana, and began learning the piano at the age of
Read → 20th CenturyWilliam Alwyn
William Alwyn (born William Alwyn Smith; 7 November 1905 – 11 September 1985), was an English composer, conductor, and music teacher who composed over 200 cinematic scores, of which some 70 were for
Read → 20th CenturyWilliam Axt
William Axt (April 19, 1888 – February 13, 1959) was an American composer of nearly two hundred film scores. Life and career Born in New York City, Axt graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in
Read → BaroqueWilliam Babell
William Babell (or Babel) (c. 1690 – 23 September 1723) was an English musician, composer and prolific arranger of vocal music for harpsichord. Life He received his musical training from his father,
Read → 21st CenturyWilliam Basinski
William James Basinski (born June 25, 1958) is an American avant-garde composer based in Los Angeles, California. He is also a clarinetist, saxophonist, sound artist, and video artist. Basinski is
Read → Late RomanticWilliam Beatton Moonie
William Beatton Moonie (1883–1961) was a British composer. He gives his name to the Moonie Collection, a collection of music held by Glasgow University. Life He was born somewhat prematurely at the
Read → 21st CenturyWilliam Beauvais
William Eugene Beauvais (born October 9, 1956) is a Canadian classical guitarist and composer who has performed in the United States, Europe, and across Canada. Early life Beauvais completed a
Read → Post-WarWilliam Bergsma
William Laurence Bergsma (April 1, 1921 – March 18, 1994) was an American composer and teacher. He was long associated with Juilliard School, where he taught composition, until he moved to the
Read → Late RomanticWilliam Berwald
William Henry Berwald (1864–1948) was an American composer and conductor of German origin. He published some 400 compositions and won numerous prizes, including the Manuscript Music Society in 1901,
Read → ClassicalWilliam Billings
William Billings (October 7, 1746 – September 26, 1800) was an American composer and is regarded as the first American choral composer and leading member of the First New England School. Life William
Read → Post-WarWilliam Blezard
William Blezard (10 March 1921 in Padiham, Lancashire – 2 March 2003 in Barnes, London) was a pianist and composer who was musical director to Noël Coward, Marlene Dietrich and Joyce Grenfell.
Read → Post-WarWilliam Bolcom
William Elden Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, a Grammy Award, and the Detroit Music Award, and was
Read → ClassicalWilliam Boyce (composer)
William Boyce (baptised 11 September 1711 – 7 February 1779) was an English composer and organist. Like Beethoven later on, he became deaf but continued to compose. He knew Handel, Arne, Gluck, J. C.
Read → RenaissanceWilliam Brade
William Brade (1560 – 26 February 1630) was an English composer, violinist, and viol player of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, mainly active in northern Germany. He was the first
Read → Post-WarWilliam Bradley Strickland
William Bradley Strickland, also known as Willie Strickland, (August 21, 1929 – April 9, 1990) was an American composer, music educator, and music publisher. In his early career he worked as a public
Read → 20th CenturyWilliam Burton Walbert
William Burton Walbert (May 18, 1886 – December 2, 1959) was an American Southern gospel songwriter, singer, composer, and editor. He (co-)wrote many songs, and he was the director of the Vaughan
Read → 20th CenturyWilliam Busch
William Busch (24 June 1901 – 30 January 1945) was a British composer and musician. Busch studied music in London, Berlin and the United States. His composition teachers included John Ireland and
Read → RenaissanceWilliam Byrd
William Byrd (; c. 15404 July 1623) was an English Renaissance composer. Considered among the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he had a profound influence on composers both from his native
Read → 20th CenturyWilliam C. K. Irwin
William C. K. Irwin (3 January 1907 – 23 October 1998) was an American pianist, conductor, and songwriter. Irwin was born in San Francisco, and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. With Australian
Read → RomanticWilliam Carter (composer)
William Carter (7 December 1838 – 1917) was an English composer, conductor, and organist. He began a lengthy career as an organist at mainly churches in London at the age of nine. In 1859 and 1860 he
Read → RomanticWilliam Christian Sellé
William Christian Sellé (1813–1898) was a Victorian doctor of music, composer and for forty years Musician in Ordinary to Queen Victoria. Biography Early life William Christian Sellé was born in
Read → BaroqueWilliam Corbett (composer)
William Corbett (18 June 1680 – 7 March 1748) was an English composer, violinist, and concert performer. The Director of New Theatre (Lincoln's Inn Fields, London) from 1700, Corbett was appointed
Read → RenaissanceWilliam Cornysh
William Cornysh the Younger (also spelled Cornyshe, Cornishe or Cornish) (1465 – October 1523) was an English composer, dramatist, actor, and poet. Life In his only surviving poem, which was written
Read → BaroqueWilliam Croft
William Croft (baptised 30 December 1678 – 14 August 1727) was an English composer and organist. Life Croft was born at the Manor House, Nether Ettington, Warwickshire. He was educated at the Chapel
Read → Early RomanticWilliam Crotch
William Crotch (5 July 177529 December 1847) was an English composer and organist. According to the British musicologist Nicholas Temperley, Crotch was "a child prodigy without parallel in the
Read → RenaissanceWilliam Daman
William Daman (or William Damon; died 1591) was a musician in England in the royal household of Elizabeth I. His few surviving compositions include an early setting of the Psalms to part-music. Life
Read → Late RomanticWilliam Dayas
William Humphreys Dayas (12 September 1863, New York – 3 May 1903, Manchester) was an American pianist, pedagogue and composer, one of the last pupils of Franz Liszt. Dayas parents died when he was
Read → 20th CenturyWilliam Denis Browne
William Charles Denis Browne (3 November 1888 – 4 June 1915), primarily known as Billy to family and as Denis to his friends, was a British composer, pianist, organist and music critic of the early
Read → Post-WarWilliam Doppmann
William Doppmann (Springfield, Massachusetts, October 10, 1934 — Honokaa, Hawaii, January 27, 2013) was an American concert pianist and composer. At the University of Michigan he was the only
Read → Post-WarWilliam Duckworth (composer)
William Duckworth (January 13, 1943 – September 13, 2012) was an American composer, author, educator, and Internet pioneer. He wrote more than 200 pieces of music and is credited with the composition
Read → ClassicalWilliam Duncombe (composer)
William Duncombe (ca. 1736-1738 – 30 November 1818, or 1819) was an English composer. He was an organist in Kensington. He is mainly known by a few small piano pieces (especially a Sonatina in C
Read → Late RomanticWilliam Edwin Haesche
William Edwin Haesche (April 11, 1867 – January 26, 1929 ) was an American composer. Haesche was born in New Haven, Connecticut, to Henry W. Haesche, a German immigrant, and his wife, the former
Read → Post-WarWilliam Ennis Thomson
William Ennis Thomson (May 24, 1927 – May 17, 2019) was an American music educator at the collegiate level, music theorist, composer, former Music School Dean and professor at the Thornton School of
Read → ClassicalWilliam Erskine, Lord Kinneder
William Erskine, Lord Kinneder (1768–1822), was a friend and confidant of Sir Walter Scott, and a scholar and songwriter. Early life and education Erskine was the son of the Rev. William Erskine,
Read → 20th CenturyWilliam F. Hanson
William Frederick Hanson (October 23, 1887 – June 22, 1969) was an American composer and music teacher who served as professor of music at Brigham Young University who specialized in Native American
Read → Late RomanticWilliam Faulkes
George William Henry Faulkes (1863–1933) – known professionally as William Faulkes – was an English musician now best known as the composer of organ music. Early life Faulkes was a native of
Read → ClassicalWilliam Felton (composer)
William Felton (1715 – 6 December 1769) was an English composer. He gained an M.A. at St. John's College, Cambridge in 1745 and was a chaplain to the Princess Dowager of Wales. He composed three sets
Read → BaroqueWilliam Flackton
William Flackton (bap. 27 March 1709 – 5 January 1798) was an 18th-century bookseller, publisher, amateur organist, viola player and composer. He is perhaps best known today for his compositions for
Read → Late RomanticWilliam Foden
William Foden (23 March 1860 – 9 April 1947) was an American composer, musician, and teacher. Foden is considered America's premiere classical guitarist during the 1890s and the first decades of the
Read → 20th CenturyWilliam G. James
William Garnet James (28 August 1892 – 10 March 1977) was an Australian pianist and composer and a pioneer of music broadcasting in Australia. Early years James was born in Ballarat in 1892. He
Read → Late RomanticWilliam G. Whittaker
William Gillies Whittaker (Newcastle upon Tyne, July 23, 1876 – Orkney Islands, July 5, 1944) was an English composer, pedagogue, conductor, musicologist, Bach scholar, publisher and writer. He spent
Read → ClassicalWilliam Gardiner (English composer)
William Gardiner (15 March 1770, in Leicester – 16 November 1853) was an English composer who is best known for his hymns. He published two collections of his works: Sacred Melodies (1808) and Music
Read → Post-WarWilliam Goldstein
William Goldstein (born February 25, 1942) is an American composer, recording artist, arts philosopher and improvisational pianist. Goldstein has received three Emmy nominations and one Grammy
Read → 20th CenturyWilliam Grant Still
William Grant Still Jr. (May 11, 1895 – December 3, 1978) was an American composer of nearly two hundred works, including five symphonies, four ballets, nine operas, and more than thirty choral
Read → Post-WarWilliam Harper (composer)
William Harper (born October 10, 1949) is a Chicago photographer and composer. His photography is concerned with natural form and line and his music is theatrical, technology-based work sourced from
Read → RenaissanceWilliam Hawte
Sir William Hawte (also Haute or Haut) (c. 1430 – 2 July 1497) was a prominent member of a Kentish gentry family of long standing in royal service, which, through its near connections to the
Read → BaroqueWilliam Hayes (composer)
William Hayes (1706 – 27 July 1777) was an English composer, organist, singer and conductor. Life Hayes was born in Gloucester. He trained at Gloucester Cathedral where the cathedral account books
Read → 20th CenturyWilliam Heinesen
Andreas William Heinesen (15 January 1900 – 12 March 1991) was a poet, writer, composer and painter from the Faroe Islands. His writing The Faroese capital Tórshavn is always the centre of Heinesen's
Read → Late RomanticWilliam Henry Bell
William Henry Bell, known largely by his initials, W H Bell (20 August 1873 – 13 April 1946), was an English composer, conductor and lecturer. Biography Bell was born in St Albans and was a chorister
Read → Late RomanticWilliam Henry Harris
Sir William Henry Harris (28 March 1883 – 6 September 1973) was an English organist, choral trainer and composer. Early life and education Harris was born in Fulham, London and became a chorister at
Read → Early RomanticWilliam Henry Kearns
William Henry Kearns (1794 – 28 December 1846) was an Irish violinist, conductor and composer active mainly in England. Biography Kearns was born in Dublin and, like many of his Irish contemporaries,
Read → RomanticWilliam Henry Longhurst
William Henry Longhurst (6 October 1819 – 17 June 1904) was an English organist at Canterbury Cathedral, and a composer. Life He was born in Lambeth in 1819, son of James Longhurst, an organ-builder.
Read → ClassicalWilliam Herschel
Frederick William Herschel ( ; ; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German–British astronomer and composer. He frequently collaborated with his younger sister and fellow astronomer Caroline
Read → BaroqueWilliam Hine
William Hine (1687–1730) was an English organist and composer. Hine was born at Brightwell, Oxfordshire. Career He was a chorister of Magdalen College, Oxford in 1694, and a clerk in 1705. Coming to
Read → Early RomanticWilliam Horsley
William Horsley (18 November 177412 June 1858) was an English composer, organist and teacher. Career In 1790, Horsley became the pupil of the pianist and composer Theodore Smith (c. 1740–1810), who
Read → RenaissanceWilliam Horwood (composer)
William Horwood, also Horewud, was an English polyphonic vocal composer in the late-medieval period ( 1430 – 1484). He was an early proponent of the English votive style and represents the first
Read → RenaissanceWilliam Hunnis
William Hunnis (died 6 June 1597) was an English Protestant poet, dramatist, and composer. Biography Hunnis was as early as 1549 in the service of William Herbert, later Earl of Pembroke. His friend
Read → Late RomanticWilliam Hurlstone
William Yeates Hurlstone (7 January 1876 – 30 May 1906) was an English composer. Showing brilliant musical talent from an early age, he died young, before his full potential could be realized.
Read → RenaissanceWilliam Inglott
William Inglott or Inglot (1553/4buried 31 December 1621) was an English organist and composer of the Elizabethan era, who is mostly associated with the cathedral in the English city of Norwich.
Read → Late RomanticWilliam J. Marsh
William John Marsh (June 24, 1880 – February 1, 1971) was an American composer, organist, choir director, and educator most notable for composing "Texas, Our Texas," the official state song for the
Read → RomanticWilliam J. McCoy (composer)
William J. McCoy (March 15, 1848 – 1926) was an American composer, music theorist, and music educator. Primarily active as composer and teacher of music in California, he was trained as a musician in
Read → 21st CenturyWilliam Jackson (Scottish composer)
William Jackson (born 14 September 1955) is a Scottish harpist and composer. William Jackson was born in Cambuslang, near Glasgow. As his grandparents came from County Donegal, he visited Ireland
Read → RomanticWilliam Johnson (organist)
William Johnson (1811–1866) was an English-born organist, conductor, composer, organ builder and music publisher based in Sydney. Early life Johnson was born in London, the son of a watchmaker,
Read → Post-WarWilliam Kraft
William Kraft (September 6, 1923 – February 12, 2022) was an American composer, conductor, teacher, timpanist, and percussionist. Biography Early life and education (1923–1954) Kraft was born in
Read → 20th CenturyWilliam L. Dawson (composer)
William Levi Dawson (September 26, 1899 – May 2, 1990) was an American composer, choir director, professor, and musicologist. Early life and education William Levi Dawson was born in Anniston,
Read → BaroqueWilliam Lawes
William Lawes (April 1602 – 24 September 1645) was an English composer and musician known for his innovative and experimental style of early Baroque music. Born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, he wrote
Read → 20th CenturyWilliam Lawrence Hanson
William Lawrence Hanson (born 1905), was a composer of a variety of songs and was the composer/co-composer of the waltz "Dreaming of My Indiana Sweetheart". They were two U.S. copyrights which are
Read → RenaissanceWilliam Leighton
Sir William Leighton ( ; – buried 31 July 1622) was an English Jacobean composer and editor who published The Teares and Lamentacions of a Sorrowfull Soule (1614). He was also a politician. Family
Read → Post-WarWilliam Lewarne Harris
William Lewarne Harris (23 May 1929 - 17 August 2013) was an English composer and teacher. Harris was born in Birkenhead. He was educated at the King's School, Canterbury until the war saw him
Read → 20th CenturyWilliam Lloyd Webber
William Southcombe Lloyd Webber (11 March 1914 – 29 October 1982) was an English organist and composer, as a part of the modern classical music movement. Besides his long career, composing works
Read → EntryWilliam Marsey
William Marsey (born 29 September 1989) is a British composer. He studied music at the University of Cambridge and composition at the Royal Academy of Music, where he was Manson Fellow. He is also
Read → RomanticWilliam Mason (composer)
William Mason (January 24, 1829 – July 14, 1908) was an American composer and pianist and a member of a musical family. His father was composer Lowell Mason, a leading figure in American church
Read → Post-WarWilliam Mayer (composer)
William Mayer (November 18, 1925 – November 17, 2017) was an American composer, best known for his prize-winning opera A Death in the Family. Life and career Mayer was born in New York City, the son
Read → 20th CenturyWilliam McKie (musician)
Sir William Neil McKie (22 May 19011 December 1984) was an Australian organist, conductor, and composer. He was Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey 1941–1963 and noted for his
Read → 20th CenturyWilliam Merrigan Daly
William Merrigan Daly Jr. (1 September 1887 – 3 December 1936) was an American pianist, composer, songwriter, orchestrator, musical director and conductor. Life and career William Daly was born in
Read → Post-WarWilliam Mesnik
William Mesnik (born May 21, 1953) is an American character actor, musician and playwright who appeared in numerous films and television series of the 1990s and 2000s. He started his career as a
Read → Early RomanticWilliam Mineard Bennett
William Mineard Bennet (1778–1858), was an English miniature-painter, singer and composer. Life Bennett was born at Exeter in 1778. While apprenticed to the engraver Abraham Ezekiel in the city, he
Read → RenaissanceWilliam Mundy (composer)
William Mundy (c. 1529–1591) was a Renaissance English composer of sacred music and father of composer John Mundy. Life Mundy was the son of Thomas Mundy, a musician and sexton of the London church
Read → Early RomanticWilliam Oliver (songwriter)
William Oliver (5 February 1800 29 October 1848) was a Tyneside poet, singer and songwriter from Newcastle upon Tyne. He is arguably best known for the song "Newcassel Props", an example of the
Read → RomanticWilliam Owen (composer)
William Owen, also known by his Welsh name Prysgol, (December 1813 – 20 July 1893) was a Welsh hymn writer. Born at Bangor, he composed the Welsh hymn tune Bryn Calfaria and other works, among his
Read → Post-WarWilliam P. Perry
William P. Perry (born 1930 in Elmira, New York) is an American composer and producer of television and film. His music has been performed by the Chicago Symphony, the Saint Louis Symphony, the
Read → ClassicalWilliam Parsons (composer and musician)
Sir William Parsons (1745/6–1817) was an English composer and musician who was Master of the King's Musick under George III between 1786 and 1817. Originally a chorister at Westminster Abbey as a
Read → Late RomanticWilliam Ralph Driffill
William Ralph Driffill (8 December 1870, Dunstable – 24 April 1922, Barnet) was an English organist and composer. Personal life Driffill was the son of William Driffill, a plumber who ran his own
Read → 20th CenturyWilliam Raskin
William Raskin, sometimes given as Willie Raskin, (November 3, 1896 – April 8, 1942) was an American songwriter and lyricist. After beginning his career as a journalist in New York, he became first a
Read → 20th CenturyWilliam Reed (English composer)
William Leonard Reed (known as Will Reed) (16 October 1910 – 15 April 2002) was an English classical composer and pianist. Life Reed was educated at Dulwich College and Jesus College, Oxford,
Read → Late RomanticWilliam Rimmer (music)
William Rimmer (1862–1936) was a Lancashire composer and conductor of brass band music who was particularly well known for his marches. Rimmer was born in Southport in 1862 into a musical family. His
Read → Late RomanticWilliam Rogers Chapman
William Rogers Chapman (August 4, 1855 – March 27, 1935) was an American conductor, organist, pianist, composer, and music educator. He is best known as the founding director of two choruses in New
Read → Post-WarWilliam Ross (composer)
William Ross (born July 20, 1948) is an American composer, orchestrator, arranger, conductor and music director. Ross is the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards (in 2007 and 2009), one Daytime
Read → Early RomanticWilliam Russell (organist)
William Russell (6 October 1777 – 21 November 1813) was an English organist and composer. Life He was the son of William Russell, an organ-builder, and was born in London on 6 October 1777. From age
Read → RomanticWilliam S. Pitts
William S. Pitts (1830 – 1918) was an American physician and composer who wrote the well-known song "The Church in the Wildwood" in 1857. Early life in upstate New York William Savage Pitts was born
Read → ClassicalWilliam Savage
William Savage (1720 – 27 July 1789) was an English composer, organist, and singer of the 18th century. He sang as a boy treble and alto, a countertenor, and as a bass. He is best remembered for his
Read → 20th CenturyWilliam Schuman
William Howard Schuman (August 4, 1910 – February 15, 1992) was an American composer and arts administrator. Life Schuman was born into a Jewish family in Manhattan, New York City, son of Samuel and
Read → 21st CenturyWilliam Sethares
William A. Sethares (born April 19, 1955) is an American professor of electrical engineering and music theorist at the University of Wisconsin. In music, he has contributed to the theory of dynamic
Read → ClassicalWilliam Shield
William Shield (5 March 1748 – 25 January 1829) was an English composer, violinist and violist. His music earned the respect of Haydn and Beethoven. Life and musical career Shield was born in
Read → ClassicalWilliam Smethergell
William Smethergell (6 January 1751 - before March 1836) was an English composer and musician who lived and worked in London. Christened in the church of St Peter le Poer, after an apprenticeship of
Read → RomanticWilliam Stanley (composer)
William Stanley (1820–1902) was an English-born Australian classical music composer, conductor and performer. Early life Stanley was born in Egham, near Windsor, England, the son of William Sexton
Read → RomanticWilliam Sterndale Bennett
Sir William Sterndale Bennett (13 April 18161 February 1875) was an English composer, pianist, conductor and music educator. At the age of ten Bennett was admitted to the London Royal Academy of
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William Stuckenholz (c. 1840, Germany – died July 18, 1884, New Orleans His songs include galops, polka, schottisches, valses, and quadrilles. Many of his works were published by the San Francisco
Read → Post-WarWilliam Sweeney (composer)
William John Sweeney (born 5 January 1950) is a Scottish composer. Biography Born in Glasgow, he attended Knightswood Secondary School. He studied the clarinet and composition at the Royal Scottish
Read → Post-WarWilliam Thomas McKinley
William Thomas McKinley (December 9, 1938 – February 3, 2015) was an American composer and jazz pianist born in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. He wrote more than 300 musical compositions in what he
Read → ClassicalWilliam Thomas Parke
William Thomas Parke (15 February 1761 – 26 August 1847) The oboe especially attracted him; in 1777 he was second oboe at Drury Lane theatre and in 1779 appeared as an oboist at Vauxhall Gardens. He
Read → BaroqueWilliam Turner (composer)
William Turner (1651/2–13 January 1740, London) was a composer and countertenor of the Baroque era. A contemporary of John Blow and Henry Purcell, he is best remembered for his verse anthems, of
Read → RomanticWilliam Vincent Wallace
William Vincent Wallace (11 March 1812 – 12 October 1865) was an Irish composer and pianist. In his day, he was famous on three continents as a double virtuoso on violin and piano. Nowadays, he is
Read → Early RomanticWilliam Walker (composer)
William Walker (May 6, 1809 – September 24, 1875) was an American Baptist song leader, shape note "singing master", and compiler of four shape note tunebooks, most notable of which are the
Read → 20th CenturyWilliam Walton
Sir William Turner Walton (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His
Read → Late RomanticWilliam Wolstenholme
William Wolstenholme (24 February 186523 July 1931) was an English composer and organist. He was blind from birth. Biography William Wolstenholm was born in Blackburn, Lancashire on 24 February 1865.
Read → 20th CenturyWilliam Wordsworth (composer)
William Brocklesby Wordsworth (17 December 1908 – 10 March 1988) was an English composer. His works, which number over 100, were tonal and romantic in style in the widest sense and include eight
Read → BaroqueWilliam Young (composer)
William Young (died 23 April 1662) was an English viol player and composer of the Baroque era, who worked at the court of Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria in Innsbruck. The sonatas which he
Read → 20th CenturyWillie Eckstein
William "Willie" Eckstein (6 December 1888 – 23 September 1963), a.k.a. the Boy Paderewski and Mr. Fingers, was a Canadian pianist and composer. Life and career William Eckstein was born in Pointe
Read → 20th CenturyWillson Osborne
Willson Osborne (1906–1979) was an American composer. After completing the undergraduate program in composition and music theory at the University of Michigan (studying with Ross Lee Finney), Osborne
Read → Post-WarWilly Albimoor
Willy Albimoor, sometimes also William Albimoor (pseudonym: Willy Noël De Moor; born on December 28, 1924, Wevelgem, Belgium – died on December 11, 2004, Borgworm, Belgium) was a Belgian composer and
Read → 20th CenturyWilly Berking
Willy Berking (22 June 1910 – 21 May 1979) was a German orchestra conductor, trombonist, and composer. Career Berking studied music (piano and composition) in Düsseldorf and then in Berlin, where he
Read → 20th CenturyWilly Burkhard
Willy Burkhard (17 April 1900 – 18 June 1955) was a Swiss composer and academic teacher, influential in both capacities. He taught music theory at the Berne Conservatory and the Zürich Conservatory.
Read → 20th CenturyWilly Ostijn
William (Willy) Ostijn, also seen as Ostyn (13 July 1913 in Kachtem – 30 March 1993 in Roeselare), was a classical Belgian composer of the 20th century. Biography At the age of sixteen, Willy Ostijn
Read → 21st CenturyWilma Alba Cal
Wilma Alba Cal (May 16, 1988) is a Cuban composer of contemporary classical music. Her work has been recognized in several competitions in Cuba organized by National Union of Writers and Artists of
Read → Late RomanticWilson Marion Cooper
Wilson Marion Cooper (December 17, 1850 – July 17, 1916) of Dothan, Alabama, was a notable musician and music teacher within the Sacred Harp tradition. Marion Cooper was born in Henry County,
Read → Post-WarWim Franken
Wim Franken (7 January 1922, Assen – 21 April 2012, Deventer) was a Dutch composer, pianist, and carillonneur. Life and work Franken studied piano with J. Wilderbeek and T. Hart Nibbrig-de Graaf,
Read → 21st CenturyWim Henderickx
Wim Henderickx (; 17 March 196218 December 2022) was a Belgian composer of contemporary classical music. He was composer in residence at Muziektheater Transparant and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra,
Read → Post-WarWim Mertens
Wim Mertens (; born 14 May 1953) is a Flemish Belgian composer, countertenor vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist. Life and work Mertens was born in Neerpelt, Belgium. He studied social and
Read → Post-WarWinfried Heurich
Winfried Heurich (born 13 February 1940) is a German organist and composer. He was director of church music at Liebfrauen, Frankfurt from 1966 to 2000 and composed music for more than 400 songs.
Read → Post-WarWinfried Michel
Winfried Michel (born 1948) is a German recorder, player, composer, and editor of music. Michel studied with Ingetraud Drescher, Nikolaus Delius, and Frans Brüggen. He is lecturer for the recorder at
Read → 20th CenturyWinfried Zillig
Winfried Zillig (1 April 1905 – 18 December 1963) was a German composer, music theorist, and conductor. Biography Zillig was born in Würzburg to the teacher . After leaving school, Zillig studied law
Read → 20th CenturyWinifred Emily Rees
Winifred Emily Rees (née Davis) (16 May 1900 - 23 May 1976) was a British author, composer, organist and teacher who later moved to Canada. Her students included Paul Anka. Rees was born in London,
Read → Late RomanticWintter Watts
Wintter Haynes Watts (March 14, 1884 – November 1, 1962) was an American composer of art songs. Life and musical career Watts was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and his early studies were in painting,
Read → MedievalWipo of Burgundy
Wipo of Burgundy (also Wippo or Wigbert; c. 995 – c. 1050), often simply Wipo, was a priest, poet and chronicler. He was a chaplain to the Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II and may have acted as a tutor
Read → 20th CenturyWitold Friemann
Witold Friemann (20 August 1889 in Konin – 22 March 1977 in Laski) was a Polish composer, pianist, conductor and pedagogue. He was very prolific and composed more than 350 Opuses, most of which
Read → Post-WarWitold Lutoslawski
Witold Roman Lutosławski (; 25 January 1913 – 7 February 1994) was a Polish composer and conductor. Among the major composers of 20th-century classical music, he is "generally regarded as the most
Read → Post-WarWitold Silewicz
Witold Silewicz (18 May 1921 in Rajsko, Poland – 26 January 2007 in Vienna) was a Polish-Austrian composer and Double bass player, probably best known for his instrumental arrangement of the Happy
Read → Post-WarWitold Szalonek
Witold Szalonek (born in 1927 in Czechowice-Dziedzice, died in 2001 in Berlin) was a Polish composer. In 1949-56 he studied at the State Higher School of Music in Katowice. Following his first
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Nifu Haruna, also known by his stage name WizzyPro is a Nigerian record producer and sound engineer. Best known for his single titled "Emergency", WizzyPro is credited as the producer of
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