| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Wills, Arthur |
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1926 |
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British musician, composer, and professor. He was Director of Music at Ely Cathedral from 1958 to 1990, and also held a Professorship at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1964 until 1992. He has composed prolifically for the organ and choir. |
| Willson, Meridith |
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1902 |
1984 |
American composer, songwriter, flutist, conductor and playwright, best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical The Music Man. He wrote three other Broadway musicals, composed symphonies and popular songs, and his film scores were twice nominated for Academy Awards. |
| Wilson, Alan |
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1947 |
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British composer of church music. From 1974 to 1986 he was Director of Music at the Church of Christ the King, Bloomsbury, for whose choir he originally wrote many of his choral works. In 1976, he became Director of Music at Queen Mary College London; and in 1986, he became organist at the church of St. Mary-le-Bow. |
| Wilson, Brian |
Wilson, Brian Douglas |
1942 |
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American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for being the multi-tasking leader and co-founder of the Beach Boys. After signing with Capitol Records in 1962, Wilson wrote or co-wrote more than two dozen Top 40 hits for the group |
| Wilson, Ed |
Wilson, Edward John |
1944 |
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Australian composer and member of Daly/Wilson Big Band. Realising that most school bands in Australia were only playing American arrangements Ed formed his own publishing company with his wife, Esther, in 1990. He would eventually supply these bands with his own music. |
| Wilson, F. |
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Music arranger |
| Wilson, Harry Robert |
|
1901 |
1968 |
American music educator, conductor, and composer. He taught choral music in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York (1932–4), and directed choral organizations at Teachers College (1936–66), |
| Wilson, Ira B. |
Holton, Fred B. |
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Early 20th century composer associated with Lorenz publishers |
| Wilson, John |
|
1595 |
1674 |
English composer, lutenist and teacher.He became a Professor of Music at Oxford in 1656 Following the Restoration, he joined the Chapel Royal in 1662 |
| Wilson, Kris |
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Australian ? |
| Wilson, Mary |
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20th Century poet, wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson |
| Wilson, Sandy |
Alexander Galbraith Wilson |
1924 |
2014 |
English composer and lyricist, best known for his musical The Boy Friend (1953) |
| Wilson, Steuart |
Wilson, Sir James Steuart |
1889 |
1966 |
English singer, known for tenor roles in oratorios and concerts in the first half of the 20th century. He retired from singing and became the BBC's director of music. He was also an arranger and lyricist |
| Wimpens, Arthur |
Wimperis, Arthur Harold |
1874 |
1953 |
English illustrator, playwright, lyricist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. |
| Winikoff, Michael |
|
1971 |
|
New Zealand computer scientist and musician. As a musician, he is into classical music and is heavily involved with choirs, both as a chorister, as an accompanist (and sometime conductor), and as a composer. |
| Winstanley, John |
|
1922 |
2014 |
A Melbournian by birth, John Winstanley came to Perth in 1976 after holding the post of Director of Music at Harrow School in England. He was a distinguished composer, conductor and choir director |
| Wirges, William |
|
1894 |
1971 |
American pianist, bandleader, and composer Wirges was a prolific composer, writing popular songs, sacred material, and commercial jingles. One of the jingles became Wirges' best-known number, the song "Chiquita Banana" written with lyricists Garth Montgomery and Len Mackenzie |
| Wirth , Gerald |
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1965 |
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Austrian musician and Artistic Director of the Vienna Boys Choir since 2001 |
| Wishart, Peter |
Wishart, Peter Charles Arthur |
1921 |
1984 |
English composer. His music is published by various publishing houses, including Banks Music Ltd., Stainer & Bell, Hinrichsen, OUP and Jackdaws Publications. His output was primarily as a vocal composer, writing songs and operas. |
| Wither, George |
|
1588 |
1667 |
17th Century Writer |
| Withers, Bill |
Withers, William Harrison |
1938 |
|
American singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985. Withers won three Grammy Awards and was nominated for four more. |
| Wittman, Scott |
|
1954 |
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American director, lyricist, composer and writer for Broadway, concerts, and television. |
| Wolf, Howard K. |
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Engraver and editor for Kalmus music |
| Wolfe, Jacques |
|
1896 |
1973 |
Romanian-born American songwriter. Jacques Wolfe is credited with writing "Short'nin' Bread" in 1928. He also set "Three Negro Poems" by Clement Wood to music for "medium or low voice and piano" |
| Wolfman, Barbara |
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American Teacher, Composer and Muysic Arranger |
| Wolstenholme, William |
|
1865 |
1931 |
English composer and organist, who was a close friend of the other noted blind organist Alfred Hollins and was also well known as a recitalist. |
| Wolters, G. |
Wolters, Gottfried |
1910 |
1989 |
German music editor especially for Möseler |
| Wood, Bruce |
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British organ pupil of Sir David Willcocks. He taught for several years at the Leys School, Cambridge, and Cranleigh School, before being appointed to a lectureship at Bangor in 1979. In 2005 he was appointed Professor of Music, retiring in 2010. Bruce’s primary research interests – on which he has published widely – are in the music of the Restoration period (especially the works of Henry Purcell and John Blow) and twentieth-century English music (especially that of Elgar). |
| Wood, Charles |
|
1866 |
1926 |
Irish composer and teacher; his pupils included Ralph Vaughan Williams at Cambridge and Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music. Wood is chiefly remembered for his Anglican church music. As well as his Communion Service in the Phrygian Mode, his settings of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis are still popular with cathedral and parish church choirs, particularly the services in F, D, and G, and the two settings in E flat; during Passiontide his St Mark Passion is sometimes performed. |
| Wood, Haydn |
|
1882 |
1959 |
20th-century English composer and a respected violinist. From 1913 to 1926, he toured extensively with the soprano Dorothy Court whom he married in 1909. He also gained considerable success from his works, particularly his songs. From 1939, he served as a director of the Performing Right Society. |