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Name	Born	Died	Information
W. de Wycombe more...	fl. late 13th century Leominster, England		English composer and copyist of the Medieval era. He was precentor of the priory of Leominster in Herefordshire. He may have been the composer of the most famous tune from medieval England, Sumer is icumen in, though the identification is considered by most scholars to be tenuous
Waclaw z Szamotual more...	c.1520 Szamotuly, Poland	c.1560 Pinczów, Poland	while serving as secretary at the court of Hieronim Chodkiewicz, he published a number of occasional panegyrics written in verse. But he must have already been known as a distinguished composer, for in 1547 he was appointed to the court of King Sigismund Augustus as composer to the Chapel Royal
Waddle, P. Kellach more...	21 Jan. 1967 Louisville, Kentucky, USA		Pulitzer-Prize nominated composer, bassist, conductor and writer
Wade, Joseph Augustine	1796 Dublin, Ireland	15 Jul. 1845 London, England	Irish-born composer
Waelput, Hendrik (Henri, Henry)	26 Oct. 1845 Ghent	8 Jul. 1885 Ghent	Belgian composer
Waelrant (or Waelrand), Hubert (or Hubertus) more...	20 Nov. 1516 or 19 Nov. 1517 Tongerloo, Brabant	19 Nov. 1595 Antwerp, Belgium	a Flemish composer, teacher, and music editor of the Renaissance. As a composer he was a member of the generation contemporary with Palestrina, though unlike the most famous composers of the time he mostly worked in northern Europe, and in addition he was progressive in the use of chromaticism and dissonance. In 1547 he founded school of music in Antwerp where he taught a new system of solmization
Wagenaar, Bernard	18 Jul. 1894 Arnhem, The Netherlands	19 May 1971 York, Maine, USA	son of Johan Wagenaar; violinist; teacher of composition, latterly at the Julliard Graduate School; composer of symphonies, concerti, chamber and piano music
Wagenaar, Johan more...	1 Nov. 1862 Utrecht, The Netherlands	17 Jun. 1941 Den Haag, The Netherlands	composer, conductor, organist and teacher
Wagenseil, Georg Christoph	29 Jan. 1715 Vienna, Austria	1 Mar. 1777 Vienna, Austria	studied with J. J. Fux among others. He is documented as early as 1735 as a court scholar, then became the organist of the widowed Empress; after 1745 he served as the piano teacher to the archdukes and archduchesses. His style attempted to combine the movements of his time: rationalism and sentimentality. Wagenseil was an influential figure in Viennese music and numbered among his pupils Franz Xaver Dussek, Leopold Hofmann and Joseph Anton Steffan, all of whom enjoyed highly successful professional careers
Wager, Gregg more...	16 Sep. 1958 Adrian, MI (USA)		studied with Morten Lauridsen and James Hopkins at USC, Mel Powell and Morton Subotnick at CalArts; music critic with the Los Angeles Times 1985-91; Ph.D. in musicology from the Free University Berlin, 1996
Waghalter, Ignaz	15 Mar. 1882 Warsaw	7 Apr. 1949 New York	Polish-born composer
Wagner, Genrikh Matusovich (Heinrich Matusowitsch) (see Vagner, Genrikh Matusovich (Heinrich Matusowitsch))
Wagner, Georg Gottfried	5 Apr. 1698 Muhlburg, Germany	23 Mar. 1756	pupil of J. Kuhnau, violinist (who performed in an orchestra directed by J. S. Bach) and composer of a motet entitled Lob und Ehre (Blessing and Honour) formerly ascribed to J. S. Bach
Wagner, (Helferich) Siegfried more...	6 Jun. 1869 Triebschen, nr. Lucerne	4 Aug. 1930 Bayreuth, Germany	the first son of Richard Wagner and grandson of Liszt, Siegfried Wagner, a pupil of Humperdinck after his father's death, turned from a proposed career as an architect to music after a voyage to the Far East in 1892. For the greater part of his life he was involved in the Bayreuth Festival. His compositions, including a number of operas, are not Wagnerian in subject or treatment, although he acknowledged his technical debt to his father in some respects. A number of his operas explore German fairy-story and legend, the world of the Brothers Grimm rather than that of the Nibelungen. His wife, Winifred Williams, who was English, continued the Bayreuth Festivals, with Adolf Hitler's support, after Siegfried's death, until the outbreak of the Second World War
Wagner, J(osef) F(ranz)	20 Mar. 1856 Vienna, Austria	5 Jun. 1908 Vienna	Austrian composer
Wagner, Joseph Frederick	9 Jan. 1900 Springfield, Mass., USA	12 Oct. 1974 Los Angeles, USA	American composer
Wagner, Karl Jacob	22 Feb. 1772 Darmstadt	24 Nov. 1822 Darmstadt	German composer
Wagner, (Wilhelm) Richard more...	22 May 1813 Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony	13 Feb. 1883 Venice, Italy	see A Survey of 19th Century Music
Wagner-Régeny, Rudolf	28 Aug. 1903 Szász-Régen, Transylvania	18 Sep. 1969 Berlin, Germany	German composer
Wahlberg, Rune	15 Mar. 1910 Gävle		Swedish composer
Waignein, André	28 Jan. 1942 Mouscron, Belgium		Belgian composer, trumpeter, conductor and teacher
Wainwright, Harriet	fl. early nineteenth century		composed and published songs, duets, trio, choruses and dramatic poems in London between 1803-1836
Wainwright, John	c.1723 Stockport, Lancashire	1768	organist; composer of well-known tune Yorkshire to Bryrom's hymn Christians, Awake
Wainwright, Robert	1748	1782	son of John; organist of Manchester Cathedral; composer of an oratorio, hymn tunes and other church music
Wainwright, Richard	1758	1825	also son of John; organist of Manchester Cathedral; composer of glees and church music
Waldburg-Wurzach, Julie Fürstin von	1841 Vienna	1914	published over 60 compositions
Waldteufel, Émile (Charles Levy) more...	9 Dec. 1837 Strasbourg, France	16 Feb. 1915 Paris, France	Alsatian composer of popular waltz tunes, pianist and chamber musician to Empress Eugénie performing at Court functions not only in Paris but also in Biarritz and Compiègne. From 1867 the Waldteufel orchestra played at Napoleon IIIs magnificent Court balls at the Tuileries
Walker, Aaron Thibeaux (T-Bone Walker, Oak Cliff T-Bone) more...	28 May 1910 Linden, Texas, USA	16 Mar. 1975	an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the most influential musicians of the early 20th century. He is believed to have been the first bluesman to use an amplified acoustic guitar
Walker, Gwyneth V. more...	1947 New York, USA		American composer
Wallace, Stewart	1960 Philadelphia, USA		American composer
Wallace, William more...	3 Jul. 1860 Greenock, Scotland	16 Dec. 1940 Malmesbury, England	studied medicine in Glasgow, Vienna and Paris before deciding to study music at the Royal Academy in Londo (aged 29). Wallace was greatly influenced by Liszt, and introduced the syphonic poem to Britain. His compositions include the symphonic poem, Sir William Wallace (1905), cantata The Massacre of the Macphersons, and an overture In Praise of Scottish Poesie (1894). He also wrote several books on music, including The Musical Faculty (1914), The Threshold of Music (1908) and biographies on Wagner and Liszt.
Wallace, William more...	1933 Salt Lake City USA		American-born, Canadian composer
Wallace, William (Vincent) more...	1 Jun. 1814 Waterford, Ireland	12 Oct. 1865 Haute Garonne, France	Irish composer particularly of operas
Wallbank, Raymond >more...	8 Aug. 1932 Lytham St Annes, Lancs. UK	16 Feb. 2010 Lytham St Annes, Lancs, UK	dubbed 'The Prince of The North Pier', organist, composer and arranger
Wallek-Walewski, Boleslaw	23 Jan. 1885 Lvov	9 Apr. 1944 Kraków	Polish composer
Wallenstein, Martin	22 Jun. 1843 Frankfurt am Main	29 Nov. 1896 Franfurt am Main	German composer
Waller, Thomas Wright (Fats) more...	21 May 1904 New York, USA	15 Dec. 1943 nr. Kansas City, Missouri, USA	an African-American jazz pianist, organist, composer and comedic entertainer
Wallin, Rolf more...	1957 Oslo, Norway		Norwegian composer
Walpurgis, Maria Antonia, Princess of Bavaria more...	18 Jul. 1724 Nymphenbourg, nr. Munich, Germany	23 Apr. 1780 Dresden, Germany	German composer
Wallnöfer, Adolf	26 Apr. 1854 Vienna, Austria	9 Jun. 1946 Munich, Germany	Austrian-born composer
Walpot, Léon	17 Apr. 1858 Anvers, Belgium	24 Jul. 1928 Ixelles, Belgium	Belgian composer and military band conductor
Walsworth, Ivor	1909 London, England	2 Nov. 1978 London, England	the name of Ivor Walsworth may usually be associated with the BBC, which he joined in 1936, later becoming Music Transcription Organiser. But he composed a wide variety of music including five symphonies, concertos for piano, violin, viola da gamba and cello, three string quartets and other chamber works, sonatas for flute, piano, violin, and flute & harpsichord, songs and film music, and some electronic works (Contrasts Essconic in collaboration with Daphne Oram. Walsworth was born in London and studied at the RAM with MacFarren, and in Munich, Budapest and Vienna. He married the concert pianist, Joan Davies
Walter, David Edgar	2 Feb. 1953 Boston		American composer
Walter, Fried	19 Dec. 1907 Ottendorf-Okrilla, nr. Dresden	8 Apr. 1996 Berlin	German composer
Walter, Johann more...	1496 Kahla, Thuringa, Germany	25 Mar. 1570 Torgau, Germany	a Lutheran singer and composer who worked during the Reformation period. Walter was consulted by Martin Luther for the German-language Deutsche Messe produced in 1525
Walter (or Walther, Walderth), (Johann) Ignaz (Joseph)	31 Aug. 1755 Radonice	22 Feb. 1822 Regensburg	Czech-born composer
Waltershausen, H(ermann) W(olfgang Sartorius) Freiherr von	12 Oct. 1882 Göttingen	13 Aug. 1954 Munich	German composer
Walther von der Vogelweide more...	c.1170	c.1230	the most celebrated of the Middle High German lyric poets
Walthew, Richard Henry	4 Nov. 1872 London, England	14 Nov. 1951 East Preston, Sussex	English composer
Walton, Cedar more...	17 Jan. 1934 Dallas, Texas, USA	19 Aug. 2013 Brooklyn, New York, USA	noted jazz pianist and composer, a leading exponent of the style known as hard bop
Walton, William (Turner) more...	29 Mar. 1902 Oldham, England	8 Mar. 1983 Ischia, Italy	English composer particularly of orchestral music, chamber works and a number of fine film scores including the music for Laurence Olivier's Henry V
Walzel, Leopold Matthias	29 Nov. 1902 Vienna, Austria	9 Jun. 1970 Vienna, Austria	Austrian composer
Wambach, Émile	26 Nov. 1854 Arlon, Luxembourg	6 May 1924 Antwerp, Belgium	composer and teacher born in Luxembourg
Wanczura, Arnost (Ernest) (see Vancura (Wanczura, Wanzura, Wanskura), Arnost (Ernest))
Wangermée, Franz	2 Nov. 1894 Jumet, Belgium	17 Feb. 1967 Etterbeek	Blegian military band conductor, teacher and composer
Wanhal, Johann Baprist (see Vanhal, Jan Krtitel)
Wanhecke (see Hecke, Van)
Wanski, Jan	1762 Wielkopolska	after 1821	Polish composer
Wantier, Firmin	13 Oct. 1919 Wasmuel, Belgium	10 Feb. 1987 Anderlecht	Belgian composer
Ward, Amy (see Woodforde-Finden, Amy)
Ward, Katherine Lucy	1833 England		a composer and student of the Royal Academy who was praised and encouraged by Mendelssohn
Ward, Robert (Eugene)	13 Sep. 1917 Cleveland, USA		American organist and composer best remembered for his hymn Materna (1882) which was used for the anthem America the Beautiful, with words by Katharine Lee Bates
Ward, Samuel Augustus more...	28 Dec. 1847 Newark, NJ, USA	28 Sep. 1903 Newark, NJ, USA	American composer
Ware, Harriet	26 Aug. 1877 Waupun, Wis., USA	9 Feb. 1962 New York, USA	American composer
Warlock, Peter (né Philip Arnold Hesletine) more...	30 Oct. 1894 London, England	17 Dec. 1930 London, England	essentially a miniaturist. the largest part of his output consists of solo songs with piano accompaniment. There are in addition choral works (some unaccompanied, some with keyboard accompaniment and a few with orchestra), the remaining handful of works being for orchestra or for piano. He was also a distinguished editor and transcriber of early music (570 published items) as well as an author (9 books, 73 articles), editor and critic (51 reviews). At a time when musical scholarship was still very much in its infancy, he made an enormous contribution to the rediscovery of early English music
Warnots, Henri	11 Jul. 1832 Brussels, Belgium	27 Feb. 1893 Saint Josse-ten-Noode	Belgian composer, singer and teacher
Warot, Constant Noel Adolphe more...	28 Nov. 28 1812 Anvers (Antwerp), Belgium	10 Apr. 1875 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian cellist. In 1852 he was appointed teacher at the Brussels Conservatoire. Besides a Violoncello Method, he wrote Duets for two Violoncellos, and an Air Varig with piano accompaniment
Warren, Elinor Remick more...	23 Feb. 1900 Los Angeles, USA	27 Apr. 1991 Los Angles, USA	American composer
Warren, Raymond (Henry Charles)	7 Nov. 1928 Weston-Super-Mare		English composer
Warren, Richard Henry	17 Sep. 1859 Albany, N.Y., USA	3 Dec. 1933 South Chatham, Mass., USA	American composer
Warszawski (or Wars, Vars), Henryk (Henry) more...	1902 Warsaw, Poland	1977 Beverley Hills, Califo. USA	Poland's foremost film composer, he shortened his last name to 'Wars'. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1947 the composer renamed himself again as 'Henry Vars' (the latter change preserves the Polish sound by changing the spelling). These transformations of the name may be explained by the demands of Vars's career as a successful composer of music for films, TV, and popular songs
Wartel, Alda Therese Annette Adrienne	1814 Paris, France	1865	first woman admitted as soloist of the Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, Paris
Waschon, Pierre (see Vachon, Pierre)
Wassenaer, Unico Wilhelm van more...	2 Nov. 1692 Delden, The Netherlands	9 Nov. 1766 Den Haag, The Netherlands	Dutch diplomat and composer
Wassenhoven, Paul van	16 Jun. 1877 Lierre, Belgium	29 Jan. 1953 Lierre, Belgium	Belgian composer, organist, conductor, choral director and teacher
Watelet, Jos	8 May 1881 Anvers, Belgium	3 May 1951 Wommelgem, Belgium	Belgian composer, piantist, organist and musicologist
Waters, Joseph more...	16 Sep. 1952 Jackson, Michigan, USA		Joseph Waters studied composition at Yale University, the Universities of Oregon and Minnesota, and Stockholms Musikpedagogiska Institut. His primary teachers were Jacob Druckman, Bernard Rands, Roger Reynolds, Dominick Argento, Martin Bresnick, Robert Kyr and Jeffrey Stolet. He is a member of the first generation of American classical composers who grew up playing in rock bands. Throughout his career he has been intrigued by the connections, confluences, and tensions which entangle and bind the great musics of Europe and Africa. Much of his work involves interactions between electronic and acoustic instruments. He has been involved in Inter-disciplinary and collaborative works on and off since the early 1980's. His e-mail is: josephwa@cox.net
Watriquet de Couvin (see Couvin, Watriquet de)
Watson, Stephen more...	1955 Chester, England		began his musical training at 13 years old with violin lessons. The trumpet was also an abiding passion at this time. His musical abilities were recognised at the City Grammar School, and afterwards at Manchester University, where he read mathematics. At university he first began composing, gaining considerable experience as an orchestral violinist as well as singing with and conducting choral societies in the north of England
Watters, Clarence (Everett)	1902	1986 USA	organist, teacher and composer, Watters was a pupil of Marcel Dupré and a frequent performer of his work
Waucampt, Edmond	22 Apr. 1850 Tournai, Belgium	1921 Tournai	Belgian composer and conductor
Waxman, Franz more...	24 Dec. 1906 Königshütte, Upper Silesia, Germany (now Chorzów, Poland)	24 Feb. 1967 Los Angeles, Calif, USA	composer of film music. Academy Awards for Sunset Boulevard (1950) and A Place in the Sun (1951); nominated for The Young in Heart (1938), Rebecca (1940), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Suspicion (both 1941); The Silver Chalice (1954), The Nun's Story (1959), and Taras Bulba (1962). Studied at Dresden Music Academy and Berlin Music Conservatory. Began composing film music for Germany's UFA studio in 1930. The Nazis drove him out of the country and he went to the US. He remained there for the rest of his life, quickly becoming and remaining one of Hollywood's best composers [information supplied by John T. Evans]
Wayditch (or Wajditsch Verbovac von Dönhoff), (Baron) Gabriel	28 Dec. 1888 Budapest, Hungary	28 Jul. 1969 New York, USA	Hungarian-born composer
Weaver, Powell	10 JUn. 1890 Clearfield, Penn., USA	22 Dec. 1951 Oakland, Calif., USA	American composer
Webb, Orianna more...	1974 Akron, OH, USA		studied at the University of Chicago, the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM), and the Yale School of Music. Her teachers have included Martin Bresnick, Margaret Brouwer, John Eaton, Joseph Schwantner, and Roger Zahab, and she has also studied at La Schola Cantorum in Paris with Samuel Adler and Philip Lasser. She studied piano with Nicolas Constantinidis, Ethel Burke, and Anna Grinberg, and bassoon with Dr. Georgia Peeples
Webbe senior, Samuel more...	1740	1816	English composer
Webbe, Samuel	c.1770 London, England	25 Nov. 1843 London, England	English composer
Weber, Alain	8 Dec. 1930 Château-Thierry		French composer
Weber, Bedrich Divis (Friedrich Dionys)	9 Oct. 1766 Velichov, nr. Karlovy Vary	25 Dec. 1842 Prague	Czech composer
Weber, Ben	23 Jul. 1916 St. Louis, USA	9 May 1979 New York, NY, USA	American serial composer
Weber, Bernhard Anselm	18 Apr. 1764 Mannheim	23 Mar. 1821 Berlin, Germany	German composer
Weber, Carl Maria von more...	18 Nov. 1786 Eutin, Holstein	5 Jun. 1826 London, England	Austrian composer who wrote successful operas Der Freischütz (1821, Berlin), Euryanthe (1823, Vienna) and Oberon* (1826, London)*
Weber, (Franz) Edmund (Kaspar Johann Nepomuk Joseph Maria)	19 Jun. 1766 Hildesheim	1828 Würzburg	German composer
Weber, Joseph Miroslav	9 Nov. 1854 Prague	1 Jan. 1906 Munich	Prague-born composer
Webern, Anton more...	3 Dec. 1883 Vienna, Austria	15 Sep. 1945 Mittersill, nr. Salzburg, Austria	Webern, with Alban Berg, was a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg in Vienna, moving in style to atonalism and then serial technique, writing music of brief concision and often of extreme delicacy. His influence on later composers has been very considerable
Webster-Garman, William more...	1954 USA		studied composition at the University of Illinois under noted fine arts composer Ben Johnston
Wecker, George Caspar more...	bap. 2 Apr. 1632 Nuremberg, Germany	20 Apr. 1695 Nuremberg, Germant	German organist, composer and teacher
Weckerlin, Jean-Baptiste (Théodore)	9 Nov. 1821 Guebwiller	20 May 1910 Trottberg, nr. Guebwiller	composer from Alsace
Weckmann, Mathias	1619 Niederola, Germany	1674 Hamburg, Germany	a pupil of Heinrich Schultz, who was himself a pupil of Giovanni Gabrieli, Weckmann work shows the influence of the Italian canzona style as well as the English style which was very prominent in Northern Germany and Denmark at the time. In all, Weckmann wrote 10 kammersonaten (chamber sonatas) for his 'Collegium Musicum', at the Jakobikirche in Hamburg, Germany
Weelkes, Thomas more...	bap. 25 Oct. 1576 Elsted, England	30 Nov. 1623 London, England	English organist and composer noted particularly for his madrigals
Weemaels, Louis	26 Apr. 1909 Uccle, Blegium		Belgian composer, conductor, choral director and teacher
Weerbeke, Gaspar van more...	c.1445 nr. Tournai, The Netherlands	Nov. 1517	a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance. He was of the same generation as Josquin Desprez, but unique in his blending of the contemporary Italian style with the older Burgundian style of Dufay
Weerst, Emmanuel (Déodat) van	31 Jan. 1932 Ledeberg, Belgium		Belgian composer
Wegelius, Martin more...	10 Nov. 1846 Helsinki, Finland	22 Mar. 1906 Helsinki, Finland	a new era in Finnish music began in 1882 with the founding of the Helsinki Music Institute (now the Sibelius Academy) by Wegelius. Wegelius studied in Vienna and Munich and all but abandoned composition after founding the Music Institute. He had originally intended to become a composer and he left quite a substantial output consisting of a handful of orchestral works, chamber music and vocal music
Wehrli, Werner	8 Jan. 1892 Aarau	27 Jun. 1944 Luzern	Swiss composer
Weichsell, Elizabeth Billington more...	c.1768 England	1818	one of the greatest singers England has ever produced. She was known for her natural voice, perfect technical control, wide range, head register, accurate intonation, and brilliant and original ornaments. She was eight-years-old when she published her Op. 1 and eleven when Op. 2 appeared in print
Weigel, Eugene (Herbert)	11 Oct. 1910 Cleveland, USA	29 Jan. 1998 Victoria, B.C.	American-born composer
Weigl, Bruno	16 Jun. 1881 Brno	25 Sep. 1938 Brno	Czech composer
Weigl, Joseph more...	28 Mar. 1766 Eisenstadt	3 Feb. 1846 Vienna, Austria	a composer and conductor. He studied music under Johann Georg Albrechtsberger and Antonio Salieri. He became Kapellmeister at the court theatre in Vienna in 1792, and from 1827 to 1838 was vice-Kapellmeister of the court. He composed a number of operas, both Italian and German, most of them comic, although most of his late works are pieces of sacred music
Weigl, Joseph Franz more...	1740	1820	the principal cellist in the orchestra of the Esterházy family, he played under the directorship of Joseph Haydn, who also was godfather to the cellist's son (Joseph Weigl), and it is thought that Haydn wrote his cello concerto in C major (Hob. VIIb/1) for him
Weigl, Karl more...	6 Feb. 1882 Vienna, Austria	11 Aug. 1949 New York, USA	the Austrian composer Karl Weigl immigrated to the United States in 1938
Weigl, Thaddäus	8 Apr. 1776	29 Feb. 1844 Vienna	Austrian composer
Weiland, Douglas more...	16 Apr. 1954 Malvern, Worcestershire, England		Weiland has worked as a full-time composer in the UK since 1990. His output includes commissioned works for Neville Marriner & The Academy of St Martin-in-the-fields, Altenberg Trio Wien, Australian Quartet (1985-89), Marie-Noelle Kendall, Academy SMF Ensemble & Andrew Marriner and Steven Isserlis. He is currently working on a Triple Concerto for Marriner/ASMF/Altenberg Trio and, as part of the post of Composer-in-Residence at the Norfolk & Norwich Music Club UK, his Third Quartet for the Janacek Quartet. Prior to 1990 his career had been also that of a violinist, based mainly in London and which culminated in five years as a founder member of William Hennessy's Australian Quartet, from 1985-90 e-mail address: ee@thepunchbowl.freeserve.co.uk
Weill, Kurt (Julian) more...	2 Mar. 1900 Dessau, Germany	3 Apr. 1950 New York, USA	in his obituary Virgil Thomson identified Weill as "the most original single workman in the whole musical theatre, internationally considered, during the last quarter century... Every work was a new model, a new shape, a new solution to dramatic problems."
Weimar, Georg Peter	16 Dec. 1734 Stotternheim, nr. Erfurt	19 Dec. 1800 Erfurt	German composer
Weinberg, Jacob	7 Jul. 1879 Odessa, Ukraine	2 Nov. 1956 New York	Ukraine-born composer
Weinberg, Moisei (see Vainberg, Moisei)
Weinberger, Jaromir	8 Jan. 1896 Prague	8 Aug. 1967 St. Petersburg, Florida, USA	Czech-born composer
Weiner, Lazar	27 Oct. 1897 Cherkassy, nr. Kiev	10 Jan. 1982 New York, USA	Russian-born composer
Weiner, Leó	16 Apr. 1885 Budapest	13 Sep. 1960 Budapest	Hungarian composer
Weinert (or Wainert, Wajnert, Wejnert, Veinert), Antoni	2 Jun. 1751 Lusdorf	18 Jun. 1850 Warsaw, Poland	Bohemian composer
Weingartner, (Paul) Felix, Edler von Münzberg	2 Jun. 1863 Zara, Dalmatia	7 May 1942 Winterthur	Dalmatian composer
Weinzierl, Max, Ritter von	(16.9.1841 Bergstadtl, Cechy	- 10.7.1898 Mödling, c. Wien)
Weinzweig, John (Jacob) more...	11 Mar. 1913 Toronto, Canada	24 Aug. 2006 Toronto, Canada	Canadian composer, teacher and adminstrator who was for decades a tireless crusader on behalf of his fellow composers and of modern music in Canada. The "dean of Canadian classical composing", he was, in 1951, the first President of the Canadian League of Composers
Weir, Judith	11 May 1954 Aberdeen, Scotland		Scottish composer, Master of the Queen's Music since June 2014
Weis (or Weiss), Karel	13 Feb. 1862 Prague	4 Apr. 1944 Prague	Czech composer
Weisgall, Hugo (David)	13 Oct. 1912 Ivancice, nr. Brno	11 Mar. 1997 Manhasset, N.Y., USA	Czech-born composer
Weismann, Julius	26 Dec. 1879 Freiburg im Breisgau	22 Dec. 1950 Singen am Hohentweil, Bodensee	German composer
Weiss, Charles A.		1935	organist in Chicago who published a Christmas Suite for organ, a Sonata for organ in g minor (1925) and some Chorale Preludes
Weiss, Raphael	10 Mar. 1713 Wangen, Allgau	28 Oct. 1779 Ottobeuren	German composer
Weiss, Sylvius Leopold more...	1686	1750	lutenist and composer, Weiss's first professional appointment was to the Prince of Poland in Rome (1708-1714). After 1717, Weiss served as a chamber musician in the royal court at Dresden with Pisendel, Hasse, Porpora, Lotti and Gluck. Generally acclaimed to have been the greatest lutenist of all time, Weiss and fellow lutanist, Johann Kropffgans, visited Bach in 1739. Weiss was known as a great improvisor (that is until his thumb was nearly bitten off by an enraged French violinist), and it is reported that on one occasion Weiss engaged Bach in a friendly improvisation contest
Weissheimer, Wendelin	26 Feb. 1838 Osthofen, Alsace	16 Jun. 1910 Nürnberg	German composer from Alsace
Weitzmann, Carl Friedrich	10 Aug. 1808 Berlin	7 Nov. 1880 Berlin	German composer
Welcher, Dan	2 Mar. 1948 Rochester, N.Y., USA		American composer
Weldon, John	19 Jan. 1676 Chichester, England	7 May 1736 London, England	English organist and composer
Welffens, Peter	7 May 1924 Anvers, Belgium		Belgian composer, conductor and teacher
Welin, Karl-Erik (Vilhelm)	31 May 1934 Genarp		Swedish composer
Wellesz, Egon (Joseph)	21 Oct. 1885 Vienna, Austria	9 Nov. 1974 Oxford, England	Austrian-born composer
Welmers, Jan more...	Jan 1937 Zuidlaren, The Netherlands		Dutch organist and composer
Welsh, Thomas	c.1780 Wells, England	24 Jan. 1848 Brighton, England	English composer
Wemyss, Lady Margaret	1630 Scotland	1649 Scotland	lutenist. Several tunes such as My Lady Binnis Lilt that appear in her book, Wemyss ms. (1643-4) material collected by or for her, are also to be found in the Balcarres manuscript indicating that these remained favourites with Scottish lute players throughout the century. The lute tablature section contains two ports, one is Port Robart, and Ruairi Dall O'Cathain's Da Mihi Manum
Wengler, Marcel more...	1946 Luxembourg		conductor and composer, for many years assistant to Hans Werner Henze
Wendland, Waldemar	10 May 1873 Legnica	15 Aug. 1947 Zeitz	German composer
Wenick, Georges-Henri	c.1718 Visé, Belgium	c.1760 Cassino, Italy	Belgian composer
Wennäkoski, Lotta more...	8 Feb. 1970 Helsinki, Finland		Wennäkoski's lyrical approach shows in the titles of her works such as Läike (1994), Vaie (1995) and Veno (2000), which can be loosely translated as Ripple, Silence and Boat, respectively; they are all relatively minor works for chamber ensemble
Wensley, Frances Foster	fl. 1828		composed A set of Six Songs and Variations of God Save the Queen, (pub. 1823, England)
Wenzel, Leopold	23 Jan. 1847 Naples, Italy	21 Aug. 1923 Asnières, nr. Paris, France	Italian-born composer
Werba, Erik	23 Jun. 1918 Baden, nr. Vienna		Austrian composer
Werder, Felix	22 Feb. 1922 Berlin, Germany		German composer
Werle, Lars Johan	23 Jun. 1926 Gävle		Swedish composer
Werrecore, Matthias Hermann	fl. early 16th century	after 1574	Flemish composer possibly born in Warcoing
Wert, Giaches (Jacques, Jachet, Jacob) de more...	1535 Weert, The Netherlands	6 May 1596 Mantua, Italy	Franco-Flemish composer active in Italy. He was one of the leaders in developing the style of the late Renaissance madrigal
Wéry Nicolas-Lambert	9 May 1789 Huy, Belgium	6 Oct. 1867 Bande, Luxemburg	Belgian composer, violinist and teacher
Werzlau, Joachim	5 Aug. 1913 Leipzig, Germany		German composer
Wesley, Charles more...	28 Dec. 1707 Epworth, Lincolnshire, England	29 Mar. 1788 London, England	brother of John Wesley, English Methodist preacher and hymnist whose works include Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
Wesley, Garret Colley (1st Earl of Mornington) more...	19 Jul. 1735 Dangan Castle, Co. Meath, Ireland	22 May 1781 Ireland	the son of the first Baron Mornington, he became the second Baron Mornington on his fathers death, becoming in due course the Earl of Mornington. As a child he was extremely precocious - and not just as a musician. Mrs. Delany (Mary Granville) writing in a letter dated 15th August 1748: "He was thirteen last month, he is a very good scholar and whatever study he undertakes he masters it most surprisingly. He began with the fiddle last year, he now plays every thing at sight; he understands fortification, building of ships and has more knowledge than I ever met with in one so young." He also played the organ and harpsichord. He was self-taught as a composer and when he approached Francesco Geminiani and Thomas Roseingrave for lessons they told him that he already knew all that they could teach him. He became the first professor of music at Trinity College, Dublin in 1764. Among his pupils there was Richard Woodward. A point of non-musical interest is that one of Morningtons sons was the first Duke of Wellington who used an alternative spelling of the family name, Wellesley [additional material prompted by Ton Meijer]
Wesley, Samuel more...	24 Feb. 1766 Bristol, England	11 Oct. 1837 London, England	son of hymnist Charles Wesley, Samuel is known mainly as a composer and organist. His wrote his first oratorio, Ruth, at age 8. A highly regarded musician in his time, he nevertheless enjoyed little financial success. He was a great admirer of Bach, and was one of the leaders in the Bach revival movement in England
Wesley, Samuel Sebastian more...	14 Aug. 1810 London, England	19 Apr. 1876 Gloucester, England	son of Samuel Wesley, English organist and church music composer particularly of anthems
Wesley-Smith, Martin	10 Jun. 1945 Adelaide, Australia		Australian composer
Wessely, Carl Bernhard	1 Sep. 1768 Berlin, Germany	11 Jul. 1826 Potsdam	German composer
Wessely (or Veselý), Johann (Paul) (Jan Pavel)	24 Jun. 1762 Hluboká	1 Jun. 1810 Ballenstedt	Czech composer
Wessman, Harri more...	29 Mar. 1949 Finland		his musical career began in the famous Tapiola Choir and orchestra directed by Erkki Pohjola. Later Wessman studied musicology and languages in Helsinki University and composition under Joonas Kokkonen at the Sibelius Academy. His output shows a composer who leans heavily on Romantic sentiment and intimate lyricism, avoiding sharp contrasts. He has half jokingly described his style as "Neo-Pathos"; he emphasizes that "a composition is above all a psychological message to another person"
Westenholz, Eleanor Sophia Maria (née Fritscher)	10 Jul. 1759 Neubrandenburg, Germany	4 Oct. 1838 Germany	she had a successful career in Germany as both a singer and a piano virtuoso. She married and gave birth to eight children. After her retirement in 1821, she performed her own music for the Schwerin court
Westergaard, Peter (Talbot)	28 May 1931 Champaign, Ill., USA		American composer
Westerhout, Nicola (Niccolò) van	17 Dec. 1857 Mola di Bari	21 Aug. 1898 Naples, Italy	Italian composer
Westerlinck, Wilfried more...	3 Oct. 1945 Leuven, Belgium		studied oboe and harmony at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels with Louis van Deyck and Victor Legley respectively, complementing this with lessons in orchestral conducting (Daniël Sternefeld), music analysis and studies in form (August Verbesselt) at the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp. From 1970 to 1983, he remained at this institution as a teacher of analysis. Westerlinck also took a course in orchestral conducting with Igor Markevich in Monte Carlo. From 1968, he was mainly active with the VRT (Flemish Radio and Television), where he was responsible for the production and broadcast of chamber and orchestral music until the beginning of 2001. In the 1990s, he was a leading figure behind such radio events as The Night of Radio 3 and Radio 3 in the City. A number of his compositions have received prizes, including Metamorfose (Tenuto Prize, 1972) and Landschappen I (prize from the Province of Antwerp, 1977). In 1985 Westerlinck received the Eugène Baie Prize for his complete oeuvre
Wetherell, Eric David more...	30 Dec. 1925 Tynemouth, UK		educated at Carlisle Grammar School, Queen's College Oxford and (1948-9) the Royal College of Music. After ten years as an orchestral horn player, he occupied the successive positions as répétiteur at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (1960-63), Assistant Music Director to Welsh National Opera (1963-96) and Chief Conductor, BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra (1976-81). He lives near Bristol and at least two of his works reflect this
Wetz, Richard	26 Feb. 1875 Gliwice	16 Jan. 1935 Erfurt	German composer
Wetzler, Hermann (Hans)	8 Sep. 1870 Frankfurt am Main	29 May 1943 New York, USA	German composer
Weutz, Giulio (see Viozzi, Giulio)
Weweler, August	20 Oct. 1868 Reike	8 Dec. 1952 Detmold	German composer
Weymarn (or Veimarn), Pavel Platonovitch	1857 St. Petersburg, Russia		Russian writer and composer who was active in the late 1880s
Weyrauch, Johannes more...	20 Feb. 1897 Leipzig, Germany	1 May 1977 Leipzig, Germany	German composer who wrote a great deal of church music
Weyse, Christoph Ernst Friedrich more...	5 Mar. 1774 Altona, Hamburg, Germany (then Danish)	8 Oct. 1842 Copenhagen, Denmark	Weyse moved to Copenhagen at age 16, and studied music and organ. He was the organist at Vor Frue Church in Copenhagen until his death, and was named court composer in 1819
Whelan, Bill more...	22 May 1950 Limerick, Ireland		Irish composer who was asked to compose a piece for the interval of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest - the end result, Riverdance, was a seven-minute display of traditional Irish dancing that became a full-length stage production and spawned a worldwide craze for Irish dancing and celtic music
Whelen, Christopher	17 Apr. 1927 London, England		English composer
Whettam, Graham more...	7 Sep. 1927 Swindon, Wilts., England	17 Aug. 2007 Woolaston, Gloucs., England	English composer who was a sometime Chairman of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain and served as a director on the boards of the Mechanical Copyright Protection and Performing Right Societies. He was also vice-chairman of the British Copyright Council for some 20 years
White, Clarence Cameron	10 Aug. 1880 Clarksville, Tenn.	30 Jun. 1960 New York, USA	American composer
White, Edward	1910	1994	White enjoyed considerable acclaim with his Runaway Rocking Horse when it emerged as one of the most popular pieces of light music in the immediate post-war years. But he was to achieve even greater success a few years later with Puffin Billy, thanks to its use in Britain as the signature tune of Childrens Favourites, and as the theme for Captain Kangaroo in the USA. Many other White originals found their way into the recorded music libraries of several London publishers
White, John	5 Apr. 1936 Berlin, USA		composer
White, Joseph (José Silvestre de los Dolores)	31 Dec. 1835 or 1837 Matanzas, Cuba	15 Mar. 1918 Paris, France	Cuban-born, naturalised French violinist who composed a violin concerto, string quartets and church music
White, Michael	6 Mar. 1931 Chicago, USA		American composer
White, Ruth	1 Sep. 1925 Pittsburgh, USA		American composer
Whitehead, Gillian	23 Apr. 1941 Hamilton, N.Z.		New Zealand composer
Whiting, George E(lbridge)	14 Sep. 1840 Holliston, Mass., USA	14 Oct. 1923 Cambridge, Mass., USA	American composer
Whitlock, Percy (pseudonym Kenneth Lark) more...	1 Jun. 1903 Chatham, Kent, England	1 May 1946 Bournemouth, England	English organist and composer
Whitmer, T(homas) Carl	24 Jun. 1873 Altoona, Pa., USA	30 May 1959 Poughkeepsie, USA	American composer
Whittle, Chris	23 May 1927 Anvers, Belgium		Belgian composer, organist, harpsichordist, pianist and teacher
Whitwell Butler, Thomas (see Butler, T. 'O'Brien' (Whitwell))
Whyte, Ian	13 Aug. 1901 Dunfermline, Scotland	27 Mar. 1960 Glasgow, Scotland	Scottish composer
Wicchel, Philippe Van	fl. middle 17th century		Belgian composer and violinist
Wickham, Florence	1880 Beaver, Pa., USA	20 Oct. 1962 New York, USA	American composer
Widerkehr (or Wiederkehr, Viderkehr), Jacques(-Christian-Michel) l'ainé	18 Apr. 1759 Strasbourg	Apr. 1823 Paris, France	French composer
Widor, Charles-Marie Jean Albert more...	24 Feb. 1844 Lyon, France	12 Mar. 1937 Paris, France	French organist, composer and teacher, best remembered today for the Toccata from his Symphony for Organ No. 5, which is often played at the end of wedding ceremonies
Widqvist, Viktor more...	27 Dec. 1881 Stockholm, Sweden	22 Dec. 1952 Stockholm, Sweden	Swedish composer, military bandmaster and tubist. Important composer of marches, including Under blågul fana (Under the Blue and Yellow Flag), the official march of the Swedish armed forces. Other marches of his ouevre are Norrlandsfärger (Colours of Norrland),Fladdrande fanor (Fluttering Flags, march of the Swedish Submarine forces) and Kungliga Bodens Ingenjörkårs marsch (March of the Royal Boden Engineer Corps). His marches are known to have a rich phrasing and ornamentation, and an instrumentation that is both delicate and varied, all instruments are put to work. They have a bright Nordic tone to them, his interest for folk music showing. Himself a tubist, he usually gave his marches lovely bass solos. Besides marches he wrote other kinds of music such as a concert ouverture, a festive ouverture, an andante religioso and a large number of dance music, mostly waltzes such as Dans på logen (Dancing in the Barn). He also wrote a large number of arrangements and rhapsodies on folk music. An unknown amount of unpublished works were lost in a fire shortly after his death [information provided by Johan Gustafsson]
Wielakker, Gerhard more...	1942 Lichtenvoorde, Belgium		Belgian composer and editor
Wiele, Aimée Van de	8 Mar. 1907 Brussels		Belgian pianist and composer
Wielecki, Tadeusz more...	5 Jul. 1954 Warsaw, Poland		Polish double-bass player and composer
Wielen, Jan Pieterszoon Van der	1645	22 Aug. 1679 Gant, Belgium	Flemish composer
Wielhorski (or Viyel'gorsky, Wielhorski, Vielhorski, Vielgorski, Vyelgorski), Count Michal (Mikhail Yuryevich)	11 Nov. 1788 St Peterburg, Russia	9 Sep. 1856 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer and musical patron
Wiéner, Jean more...	19 Mar. 1896 Paris, France	8 Jun. 1982 Paris, France	French jazz pianist, music critic and successful composer who influenced Les Six and Stravinsky
Wieniawski, Adam Tadeusz	27 Nov. 1879 Warsaw, Poland	21 Apr 1950 Bydgoszcz	Polish composer
Wieniawski, Henryk (Henri) more...	10 Jul. 1835 Lublin, Poland	31 Mar. 1880 Moscow, Russia	Polish violinist and composer. He was a violin child prodigy. At the age of five he began violin lessons and three years later was admitted to the Paris Conservatory, overcoming the obstacles of being underaged and of foreign nationality. After completing with gold medal the accelerated course of study at the Conservatory he remained in Paris perfecting his technique under the care of professor Joseph L. Massart. It was then that he met in his mother's Paris salon the two most famous Polish emigrees: Adam Mickiewicz (the poet) and Fryderyk Chopin
Wieruszowski, Lili more...	1899 Cologne, Germany	1970	organist and composer
Wieslander, (Axel Otto) Ingvar	19 May 1917 Jönköping, Sweden	29 Apr. 1963 Malmö, Sweden	Swedish composer
Wiggins, William Bramwell (or Bram) more...	1921 London, UK		educated at Trinity College, London and the Royal Academy of Music, Wiggins was a trumpet player in the LSO (1946-57) and the Philharmonia (1960-5). He was also music master at Stowe School for some years. His works include tutors for the trumpet, various brass band arrangements and lightish suites for band
Wiggins, Thomas Greene more...	25 May 1849 Harris County, Georgia, USA	12 Jun. 1908 Hoboken, New Jersey	blind from birth and autistic, Thomas Greene Wiggins was a musical genius with a phenomenal memory. Even after Emancipation, his former owners kept him, in the words of the late author Geneva Handy Southall, "Continually Enslaved". His many concerts and the sale of his sheet music earned fabulous sums of money, nearly all of which went to his owners and their heirs
Wigglesworth, Frank	3 Mar. 1918 Boston, USA		American composer
Wigy, Frans	23 May 1911 Malines	5 Mar. 1989 Malines, Belgium	Belgian composer, violinist, conductor and teacher
Wihtol, Jazeps (see Vitols, Jazeps Joseph)
Wijnants (or Winant, Wynant et Wynants), Frédéric	c.1572	c.1597	Flemish composer and singer
Wikmanson (or Wikman), Johan (Johannes)	28 Dec. 1753 Stockholm	10 Jan. 1800 Stockholm	Swedish composer
Wilberg, Mack more...	1955 Utah, USA		pianist, arranger, conductor and composer
Wilder, Alec (Alexander) (Lafayette Chew)	16 Feb. 1907 Rochester, NY, USA	22 Dec. 1980 Gainesville, Fla., USA	American composer
Wilder, Philip van	c.1500 Flanders	24 Feb. 1553 London, England	a composer and lutenist, resident in England after 1525. He became the favourite musician of King Henry VIII of England, the lute teacher to the future Queen Mary in 1529 and the King's lutenist in 1538. He was Keeper of the Instruments at Westminster when Henry died in 1547. He achieved considerable wealth and influence as courtier to the English kings, but was largely forgotten soon after his death. Two of his sacred pieces are in the Gyffard partbooks; he is also represented in several Continental anthologies. Church music, lute pieces and In nomines survive in MS. An anonymous keyboard setting of his Je file is in Lord Middleton's Lute Book now housed in the Nottingham University Library
Wilderer, Johann Hugo von	1670-1671 Bayern	bur. 7 Jun. 1724 Mannheim	German composer
Wildgans, Friedrich	5 Jun. 1913 Vienna, Austria	7 Nov. 1965 Mödling, nr. Vienna, Austria	Austrian composer
Wilding-White, Raymond	9 Oct. 1922 Caterham, Surrey		English composer
Wilens, Greta more...	Germany		long domiciled in England and a founder member of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain, she is best known for her ballad-like song Isola Bella conceived for Tauber, and the march The Albatross
Wilford, Arthur	1851 Temse, (Flandre Orientale)	22 Nov. 1926 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Belgium	Belgian composer, piantist and teacher
Wilgen, Van der (see Gerardus à Salice Flandrus)
Wilhelmina, (Friederike Wilhelmine Sophie) Markgräfin von Bayreuth more...	3 Jul. 1709 Berlin, Germany	14 Oct. 1758 Bayreuth, Germany	Margrave Frederick (1735-63), was married to the sister of Frederick the Great, Friederike Wilhelmine Sophie, and kept court in Bayreuth. The young Margravine was active in the arts, and like her famous brother was an enthusiastic composer (for example, the operas Amaltea and L'Elliogabalo), and the Margrave had an opera-house built in Bayreuth, completed in 1747, and in its time, one of the largest theatres in the world with exceptional acoustics. She also wrote an entertaining and popular autobiography The Memoirs of the Margravine of Bayreuth
Wilkes, Josué Téofilo	8 Jan. 1883 Buenos Aires	10 Jan. 1968 Buenos Aires	Argentinean composer
Wilkinson, Robert more...	c.1450	1515 or later	at Eton from 1496 to 1515, first as parish clerk and then from 1500 as master of the choristers (Informator), his nine-part Salve regina and his Apostles' Creed are the last entries in the Eton Choirbook and possibly were copied by him
Willaert, Adriaan (Adriaen, Adrian) more...	c.1490 probably Bruges, Belgium	7 Dec. 1562 Venice, Italy	a Flemish composer of the Renaissance and founder of the Venetian School. He was one of the most representative members of the generation of northern composers who moved to Italy and transplanted the polyphonic Franco-Flemish style there. He held the position of maestro di cappella at St. Mark's Venice for thirty-five years
Willan, (James) Healey more...	12 Oct. 1880 Balham, London	16 Feb. 1968 Toronto, Canada	English born organist, church musician, choir conductor, teacher and composer who moved to Canada in 1913
Willaume, Albert Gabriel	17 Jul. 1873 Romilly-sur-Seine, France	after 1911	French biolinist and composer of works for violin
Willcocks, George Henry more...	1899	1962	Willcocks had over thirty years in military bands, latterly as Director of Music to the Irish Guards, before his retirement in 1949; he then turned to the brass band movement as a band trainer and conductor, making recordings with the Black Dyke Mills Band. His compositions were principally marches, primarily for military rather than brass band
Willems, Jacob	2 Nov. 1601 Belgium	26 Sep. 1645 Belgium	composer and priest, he was ordained deacon in Malines (1623) before being ordained as deacon in Brussels at the Archbishop's palace. He became chaplain of the Chapel of St. Basil in 1630. He was director of music at St. Donatian's Cathedral between 1632 and 1643
Willent-Bordogni, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph	8 Dec. 1809 Douai	11 May 1852 Paris, France	French composer
William II of Villehardouin more...		1 May 1278	the last Villehardouin prince of Achaea and ruled the principality at the height of its power and influence. He was also a poet and troubadour, and the Manuscrit du Roi, containing two of his own compositions, was written in Achaea during his reign. He was fluent in both French and Greek
William IX of Aquitaine (see Guillaume IX, comte d'Aquitaine)
Williams, Adrian more...	1956 England		pianist, composer and orchestrator
Williams, Alberto	23 Nov. 1862 Buenos Aires, Argentina	17 Jun. 1952 Buenos Aires, Argentina	studied at the Paris Conservatoire before returning to Argentina to establish his own conservatory (1893-1941) and to work as a conductor and composer of nine symphonies
Williams, Charles (né Isaac Cozerbreit) more...	8 May 1893 London, UK	7 Sep. 1978 Findon, Sussex, UK	began his career accompanying silent films, then played violin under the batons of Beecham and Elgar. He provided scores for numerous British films, and his Dream Of Olwen is still remembered long after the film in which it appeared While I Live. In 1960 he topped the American charts with his theme for the film The Apartment, although in reality the producers had resurrected one of his earlier works Jealous Lover. By far the majority of his composing skills were employed in mood music, providing hundreds of works for Chappells alone, many of them also conducted by him. Devils Galop will forever remind schoolboys of the 1940s of Dick Barton, while early television viewers became familiar with Girls in Grey, the theme for BBC newsreels. The Young Ballerina accompanied the famous Potters Wheel TV interlude
Williams, Edgar Warren (Jr.) more...	12 Jun. 1949 Orlando, Florida, USA		noted American composer, theorist, and conductor
Williams, Gene (see Wright, Lawrence)
Williams, Grace (Mary)	19 Feb. 1906 Barry, Glamorgan, Wales	10 Feb. 1977 Barry, Wales	Welsh composer
Williams, (John) Gerrard more...	10 Dec. 1888 London	7 Mar. 1947 Oxted, Surrey	he arranged vast quantities of music by seemingly everyone for almost every medium. The BBC Orchestral Catalogue alone lists hundreds of arrangements of folk-songs, folk dance tunes, popular melodies, Bach and so on. His arrangements for the BBC Military Band were similarly legion, but although he did not begin until 1911 he was a composer himself and the length and subject matter of many of his works justify us in reckoning him a "light music" composer
Williams, John (Towner) more...	8 Feb. 1932 New York, USA		conductor and film music composer, winner of many Oscars
Williams, Ralph Vaughan (see Vaughan Williams, Ralph)
Williams, William	baptized 1 Aug. 1675 London, England	buried 20 Jan. 1701 London, England	English instrumentalist amd composer of trio sonatas for violin, and for recorder. The most enduring of his works is the Sonata in Imitation of Birds for 2 treble recorders and continuo. He also composed songs for theatre [information provided by Alice Derbyshire]
Williamson, Malcolm (Benjamin Graham Christopher) more...	21 Nov. 1931 Sydney, Australia	4 May 2003 Cambridge, England	Williamson studied composition with Sir Eugene Goossens at the Sydney Conservatorium. He moved to London in 1950, where he continued his studies with Irwin Stein and Elizabeth Lutyens. He was appointed Master of the Queen's Music in 1975 - the first non-Briton ever to hold the post. The following year, he received the CBE. Honours from his native Australia came later - an honorary doctorate from Melbourne University (1982) and the AO (Officer of the Order of Australia) for services to music and the disabled (1987)
Willis, Michelle more...	16 Nov. 1974 Idaho Falls, USA		voice, violin and piano teacher and composer
Willson, Robert Meredith more...	18 May 1902 Mason City, Iowa, USA	15 Jun. 1984 California, USA	an American composer and playwright, best known as the writer of The Music Man
Wilmots, Juliaan	5 Mar. 1936 Saint-Trond, Belgium		Belgian composer, choral director and teacher
Wilson, Alexander Galbraith (Sandy)	19 May 1924 Sale, UK	27 Aug 2014	composer and lyricist, best known for The Boy Friend (1953), a musical tribute to the Roaring Twenties
Wilson, Charles M.	8 May 1931 Toronto, Canada		Canadian composer
Wilson, Mrs. Cornwall Baron		1846 London	poet and composer who won a prize of the Melodists Club in 1837 and medals at Bardic festivals in Wales
Wilson, Dana (Richard) more...	1946		American composer, jazz pianist, and teacher
Wilson, Gerald Stanley more...	4 Sep. 1918 Shelby, Mississippi, USA	8 Sep. 2014 Los Angeles, California, USA	American jazz composer and conductor
Wilson, Ian more...	1964 Belfast, Northern Ireland		Irish composer who has written over seventy pieces including a chamber opera, concertos for organ, cello, alto saxophone, violin (two), marimba and piano, orchestral pieces, seven string quartets, four piano trios and many other chamber and vocal works
Wilson, James	27 Sep. 1922 London, England	6 Aug. 2005 Loughlinstown, Co Dublin more...	eclectic composer who held the chair in composition at the Royal Irish Academy of Music from 1969 until he retired in 1980. He was also active as an administrator, serving as consulting director of the Irish Performing Right Society and Irish Music Rights Organisation and as founding director of the Dublin Festival of 20th-Century Music, and he was prominent in the Music Association of Music and the Association of Irish Composers. In 1982 he was elected a member of Aosdána, the official academy of creative artists
Wilson, Richard more...	1941 USA		American teacher and composer of some eighty works in many genres, including opera
Wilson, Thomas (Brendan) more...	10 Oct. 1927 Trinidad, Co., USA	12 Jun. 2001 Scotland	Wilson's family returned to Scotland when he was seventeen months old and he lived there for the rest of his life apart from a three-year period in the RAF spent in France. He was educated at St Mary's College, Aberdeen. He then read Music at Glasgow University where, in 1957, he accepted a teaching post. In 1971 he was appointed Reader and in 1977 was given a Personal Chair. He consistently played an active part in the musical life of Britain holding advisory postitions in such organisations as The Arts Council, The New Music Group of Scotland, The Society for the Promotion of New Music, The Composers Guild of Great Britain (Chairman 1986-89) and the Scottish Society of Composers of which he was a founder member. Wilson's works have been played all over the world and embrace all forms - orchestral, choral-orchestral, chamber-orchestral, opera, ballet brass band, vocal music of different kinds, and works for a wide of variety of chamber ensembles and solo instruments. He was given many important commissions - Henry Wood Proms, Scottish Opera, Glasgow 1990, Scottish Ballet, Edinburgh Festival, Cheltenham Festival, City of London Festival, Musica Nova, BBC, to name but a few. In 1990 Thomas Wilson was awarded the CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List and elected a FRSE. The following year he was created a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and Glasgow University conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Music upon him
Wilson-Dickson, Oliver more...	mid 1970s, UK		since graduating in music from the University of York in 1999, Oliver has been carving a name for himself in the music world. He plays at the cutting edge of folk and world music with the bands Szapora, Mabon, the Téa Hodzic Trio and NewFolks, with whom he has toured for many years through Yehudi Menhuins Live Music Now scheme. He has played with these bands at venues including The Barbican, Buckingham Palace, The Purcell Room and The Albert Hall and has toured to Finland, Italy, Spain, Greece, France, Belgium, Bulgaria, the USA, Japan and Ireland. He works with other artists including the storyteller Daniel Morden, with whom he performs in the UK and abroad and will soon be appearing at the National Theatre. A fluent improviser, he has contributed many recordings from Cartoons for the BBC to CDs for Warner International
Wiltgen, Roland more...	1957 Differdange, Luxembourg		Luxembourg-born composer who lives in Paris
Wimberger, Gerhard	30 Aug. 1923 Austria		Austrian composer
Winde, Paul de	fl. early 16th century	1598 Liège, Belgium	Belgian composer and organist
Windt, Herbert	15 Sep. 1894 Senftenberg	22 Nov. 1965 Deisenhofen	German composer
Wineberger (or Winneberger), Paul Anton	7 Oct. 1758 Mergentheim	8 Feb. 1821 Hamburg	German composer
Winkel, Therese Emilie Henrietta aus dem	1784 Germany	1867	a virtuoso harpist who published her compositions and several pamphlets on the construction of the harp. She was also a talented oil-painter
Winkler (or Vinkler), Alexander (Gustav) Adolfovich	3 Mar. 1865 Kharkov, Ukraine	6 Aug. 1935 Besancon, France	Ukrainian pianist and composer
Winter, Peter (von)	bap. 28 Aug. 1754 Mannheim	17 Oct. 1825 Munich, Germany	prolific opera composer
Winterbottom, Frank		1930	a prolific arranger for band of the classical repertoire, Frank produced original compositions too, the ballets Jorinda and Phantasm and the suite Seven Ages, after Shakespeare
Wintzer, Richard	9 Mar. 1866 Nauendorf, nr. Halle	14 Aug. 1952 Berlin, Germany	German composer
Wirén, Dag (Ivar) more...	15 Oct. 1905 Stridberg, Sweden	19 Apr. 1986 Stockholm, Sweden	his Serenade for Strings is among the most often performed Swedish orchestral works although he also wrote symphonies and concertos although these are far less often performed
Wiseneder, Caroline	1807 Germany	1868	instrumental in beginning the Wiseneder School for the Blind in 1860. She also invented a movable chart for the blind. Her melodramas and operas were published. Her method for the teaching of instrumental music to young children was adopted by the National Kindergarten movement established in Germany in about 1873
Wishart, Peter (Charles Arthur)	25 Jun. 1921 Crowborough, England	14 Aug. 1984 Frome, England	English composer
Wislocki, Stanislaw Michal more...	7 Jul. 1921 Rzeszów, Poland	31 May 1998 Warsaw, Poland	Polish conductor and composer
Wisme, Nicholas de	fl. 16th century		Belgian composer
Wissing, Norbert more...	1959 The Netherlands		Dutch composer
Wissmer, Pierre Alexandre more...	30 Oct. 1915 Geneva, Switzerland	1992 Valcros, France	Swiss-born composer
Wistuba-Alvarez, Vladimir	1956 Chile		Chilian composer based in Finland
Wiszniewski, Zbigniew	30 Jul. 1922 Lvov, Poland		Polish composer
Witherspoon, Jordan Charles more...	7 Feb. 1986 California, USA		American composer
Witkowski, Georges(-Martin)	6 Jan. 1867 Mostaganem, Algeria	12 Aug. 1943 Lyon, France	Algerian-born composer
Witt (or Witte), Christian Friedrich more...	c.1660 Altenburg, Germany	3 0r 13 Apr. 1716 Altenburg or Gotha, Germany	German composer, music editor and teacher
Witt, Friedrich	8 Nov. 1770 Niederstetten, Württemberg	3 Jan. 1836 Würzburg	German composer
Wittock, Juliaan	8 Nov. 1825 Saint-Nicolas (Flandre Orientale)	26 Jun. 1880 Saint-Nicolas (Flandre Orientale)	Belgian composer and conductor
Wittassek, Johann Nepomuk August	23 Mar. 1770 Horín	7 Dec. 1839 Prague	Czech composer
Wittmann, Jean-François-Marie	10 Sep. 1824 Malines, Belgium	26 May 1901 Schaerbeek, Belgium	Belgian composer, librettist and choral director
Woczitka, Franz Xaver more...	c.1730 Vienna, Austria	Munich, Germany	in 1756 he entered the service of the Court of Mecklenburg- Schwerin. He was, subsequently member of the Electoral band at Munich. He left behind him in manuscript Concertos and Sonatas for Violoncello, which were highly prized in their time
Woelf, Joseph (see Wölfl, Joseph)
Woestijne, David van de more...	18 Feb. 1915 Llanidloes, Wales	18 May 1979 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer
Wohl, Yehuda	5 Mar. 1904 Berlin, Germany	22 Dec. 1988 Tel Aviv, Israel	German-born composer
Wohlgemuth, Gerhard	16 Mar. 1920 Frankfurt, Germany		German composer
Woikowski-Biedau, Viktor Hugo von	2 Sep. 1866 Nieder-Arnsdorf, nr. Schweidnitz	1 Jan. 1935 Berlin, Germany	German composer
Wolf, Ernst Wilhelm more...	25 Feb. 1735 Grossenbeeren, Germany	bur. 1 Dec. 1792 Weimar, Germany	German Kapellmeister who composed not only instrumental music and operas, but was respected also outside Weimar for his sacred works, mainly cantatas and oratorios for protestant church music. Gerber numbered him among the "most classical and best composers in every discipline, Schubart and Reichardt held him also in high esteem
Wolf, Hanns more...	7 Jun. 1894 Bamburg, Germany	2 Jul. 1968 Fuessen, Germany	German pianist and organist the majority of whose compositions were lost towards the end of the Second World War
Wolf, Hugo (Filipp Jakob) more...	13 Mar. 1860 Windischgraz, Slovenia	22 Feb. 1903 Vienna, Austria	pianist, violinist and composer, most noted for his lieder, whose life was blighted by depression and, later, syphilitic insanity
Wolf, Maria Carolina Benda	1742 Germany	1820	daughter of Bohemian composer Franz Benda, a sister of composer Juliane Benda (later Reichardt) and wife of composer Ernest Wilhelm Wolf, Maria was a a harpsichordist, singer and composer
Wolfe, Julia more...	1958 Philadelphia, PA, USA		Wolfe, whose background includes theater, dance, and vocal training, approaches music composition with a sensibility that combines the best of these art forms. Regarded as one of the key voices of her generation, Wolfe's music is muscular and kinetic and experienced through the body. She creates journeys like unfolding dramatic landscapes, a music meant to be entered into by the listener, a music of "rare, strange beauty" says composer Evan Ziporyn
Wolff, Albert (Louis)	19 Jan. 1884 Paris, France	20 Feb. 1970 Paris, France	French composer
Wolff, Christian more...	8 Mar. 1934 Nice, France		French composer who now lives in the United States
Wolff, Hellmuth Christian	23 May 1906 Zürich	1 JUl. 1988 Leipzig	Swiss-born composer
Wolff, Max	Feb 1840 possibly Moravia	23 Mar. 1886 Vienna, Austria	Moravian composer
Wolf-Ferrari (or Wolf), Ermanno more...	12 Jan. 1876 Venice, Italy	21 Jan. 1948 Venice, Italy	Italian composer, particularly of operas such as The Secret of Suzanne (1909) and The Jewels of the Madonna (1911)
Wölfl (or Wölffl, Woelfl), Joseph more...	24 Dec. 1773 Salzburg, Austria	21 May 1812 London, England	Austrian pianist and composer who studied music under Leopold Mozart and Michael Haydn. Wölfl was very tall (over 6 feet), and with an enormous fingerspan (his hand could strike a thirteenth, according to his contemporary Frantisek Tomasek); to his wide grasp of the keyboard he owed a facility of execution which he turned to good account, especially in his extempore performances
Wolfram, Joseph Maria	21 Jul. 1789 Dobrzan	30 Sep. 1839 Teplice	Polish composer
Wolfurt (or Wolff), Kurt von	7 Sep. 1880 Lettin	25 Feb. 1957 Munich, Germany	German composer
Wolkenstein, Oswald von more...	1376/77 Val Pusteria, South Tyrol	2 Aug. 1445 Merano	poet, a composer and a diplomat. In the latter capacity he travelled through all of Europe, even to Georgia
Wollanck (or Wollank), (Johann Ernst) Friedrich	3 Nov. 1781 Berlin	6 Sep. 1831 Berlin	German composer
Wollmann, Thorsten more...	1966 Biberach Laupheim Germany		jazz trumpeter, musical director and composer
Wolpe, Stefan more...	25 Aug. 1902 Berlin, Germany	4 Apr. 1972 New York City, NY, USA	German-American composer whose style embrased elements from folk music and modern jazz to twelve tone technique
Wolpert, Franz Alphons (Alfons)	11 Oct. 1917 Wiesentheid	7 Aug. 1978 Wiesentheid	German composer
Wood, Charles	15 Jun. 1866 Armagh	12 Jul. 1926 Cambridge	Northern-Irish composer
Wood, Christopher	1911	1990	English composer, conductor and harpsichordist who developed a special interest in composing contemporary music for early instruments. Wood studied at the Royal College of Music with Herbert Howells and Gordon Jacob and later with Sir Arnold Bax. He went on to study conducting with Bruno Walter and Herbert von Karajan and piano with Adeline de Lara, a pupil of Clara Schumann and Brahms. During the 1950s he concentrated on the harpsichord and performed and recorded extensively, being particularly associated with the Dolmetsch family
Wood, Haydn more...	25 Mar. 1882 Slaithwaite, Yorkshire, England	11 Mar. 1959 London, England	English composer of 15 suites, 9 rhapsodies, 8 overtures, 3 big concertante pieces and nearly 50 other assorted items; six choral compositions, some chamber music - notably a string quartet and over a dozen instrumental solos - 7 song cycles and something in excess of 200 individual songs. However he is probably remember more for just three of those vocal items (Roses of Picardy, A Brown Bird Singing and Love's Garden of Roses) and a single movement of his London Landmarks Suite - Horse Guards, Whitehall
Wood, Henry	1869	1944	English conductor, arranger and composer who founded the 'Promenade Concerts' held in London
Wood, Joseph	12 May 1915 Pittsburgh, USA		American composer
Wood, Ralph (Walter)	31 May 1902 London, England		English composer
Woodbury (or Woodberry), Isaac Baker	23 Oct. 1819 Beverly, Mass., USA	26 Oct. 1858 Columbia, S.C., USA	American composer
Woodcock, Robert	1690	1728	English marine painter and composer of recorder and oboe music
Woodfield, Ray more...	1931		for many years, from 1974, a teacher in the Doncaster Peripatetic Service, and before that also a Director of Music with the Royal Marines is an even more prolific arranger and composer than Sumner and his arrangements are often astonishingly inventive. His main instrument was the clarinet and his long list of compositions includes a number of miniatures for it, but he himself regards his best original works as the two euphonium solos Varied Mood (an anagram of the name of its dedicatee, David Moore) and Caprice, also for Moore, the marches Walkabout (originally written for Woodfield's student band in Doncaster) and Amsterdam a military march often played in Holland, Trumpet Eclair, a virtuoso solo item, and a Concerto in E flat, also for trumpet
Woodforde-Finden, Amy more...	1860 Valparaíso, Chile	13 March 1919 England	born Amy Ward, Amy Woodforde-Finden was a composer of sentimental songs, best known for writing the music to Kashmiri Song from Four Indian Love Lyrics by Laurence Hope [entry prompted by Michael Bourne]
Woodward, Richard	1743 Dublin, Ireland	1777	Richard was the son of one of the Lay Vicars Choral of Christ Church and St. Patrick's Cathedrals whose name was also Richard. Richard (senior) outlived his son by 18 years. Richard (Junior) was presumably brought up in the Choir School and Choir of Christ Church Cathedral under George Walsh his predecessor as organist there. On Walsh's death in 1765, Woodward (at the age of 22) was appointed organist of Christ Church. He was made a Lay Vicar Choral there at the same time He was also made Master of the choristers at both Cathedrals or as his memorial at Christ Church Cathedral has it: "Preceptor to the Children of the two Choirs, Dublin." . In 1770 he was appointed as a Lay Vicar Choral at St. Patricks. In 1771 at the age of 28, Woodward received the degree of Mus.D. from Dublin University; this was during the Earl of Mornington's tenure as Professor of Music there. Woodward's Op. 3, "Cathedral Music", is his most important publication and contains much fine music; including anthems and a Service in B flat
Wooldridge, David (Humphry Michael)	24 Aug. 1927 Deal, Kent, England		English composer
Wooldridge, John de Lacey	1919	1958	English composer, a pupil of Sibelius and contemporary and friend of William Walton. On Nov. 30, 1944, and again on Dec. 1 and Dec. 2, veteran Royal Air Force fighter pilot Wooldridge (91 combat missions) bathed in prolonged applause at Carnegie Hall after conductor Artur Rodzinski led the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in Wooldridge's Solemn Hymn to Victory. Earlier that year, visiting the city, the 33-year-old British officer had met the Philharmonic's music director and presented him with the score. Given the spirit of the times, Rodzinski promised the flier a performance if he got five German kills. In August, Wooldridge cabled that the deed was done. Rodzinski cheerfully kept his end of the bargain. The war hero's work was grafted onto an all-British program featuring his more senior and accomplished countrymen Ralph Vaughan Williams and William Walton. After the War he wrote a number of film scores, His promising career ended in a fatal car accident at the age of 39
Woolf, (Sophia) Julia	1831 England	1893	won some fame through her piano pieces, an opera Carina (1888), and songs. She was the grandmother of the composer Vivian Ellis
Woollen, (Charles) Russell	7 Jan. 1923 Hartford, Conn., USA		American composer
Worgam, Mary	fl. mid-eightenth century		composer of songs that were published between 1745-1750
Worgan, George	1802 London, England	1888	English composer, grandson of Dr. John Worgan
Worgan, James	1713 London, England	1752 London, England	London organist and song composer, brother of Dr. John Worgan
Worgan, Dr. John	1724 London, England	24 Aug. 1790 London, England	organist and composer at Vauxhall Gardens (1751-1761) after which he continued only as a composer (1770-1774). He composed oratorios, cantatas, songs, anthems and several keyboard works. John Worgan is probably best remembered for his playing of the Easter Hymn commonly known as the Worgan Tune (Jesus Christ is Risen Today) as well as having taught Charles Wesley how to play the piano [additional information provided by Tony Staes]
Worgan, Thomas Danvers	1774 London, England	1832	English composer and theorist, son of Dr. John Worgan
Woronoff, Wladimir	5 Jan. 1903 St. Petersburg, Russia	21 Apr. 1980 Brussels, Belgium	Russian born- later naturalised Belgian composer
Worp, Johannes more...	24 Dec. 1821 Broek in Waterland, The Nethlands	21 Apr. 1891 Groningen, The Netherlands	Dutch organist, teacher and composer
Worzischek, Jan Vaclav (Hugo) (see Vorisek, Jan Vaclav Hugo)
Wöss, Josef Venantius von	13 JUn. 1863 Kotor	22 Oct. 1943 Vienna	Austrian composer
Wotquenne, Alfred	25 Jan. 1867 Lobbes, Belgium	25 Sep. 1939 Antibes, France	Belgian composer, musicologist, organist and teacher
Wouters, Adolphe François	28 May 1849 Brussels, Belgium	16 Apr. 1924 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer, pianist, organist and teacher
Woyrsch, Felix von	8 Oct. 1860 Opava	20 Mar. 1944 Altona, Hamburg	German composer
Wranitzky, Paul (see Vranicky, Pavel)
Wreede Johannes (de) (see Urreda, Johannes)
Wright, Ernest John more...	24 Aug. 1911 Co. Kildare, Ireland	5 Feb. 1993 Isleworth, Middlesex	commercial artist and composer
Wright, Kenneth Anthony more...	1899 Norfolk	1975	Wright devoted the years of his prime to the BBC. He was educated at Sheffield University before joining the BBC in 1922 when he became the first Director of BBC Manchester 2ZY. From there he progressed to be Personal Assistant to Percy Pitt (1923-30) and to Sir Adrian Boult (1930-37) and successive conductors of BBC orchestras, Overseas Music Director (1940-3), Deputy Director Of Music (1944-7) and Acting Director in 1947 for a time after Victor Hely-Hutchinson's death, Artists' Manager (1948-51) and Head of TV Music from 1951. After he was forced to retire from the Corporation on reaching the age of sixty (something even Boult, absurdly, had to do) Wright went into films
Wright, Lawrence more...	15 Feb. 1888 Leicester, UK	19 May 1964 Blackpool, UK	Leicester-born songwriter, one of the most prolific of the first half of the twentieth century. In addition to using his own name, he wrote many songs under the pseudonym 'Horatio Nicholls' and occasionally as 'Everett Lynton' and 'Gene Williams'. He also founded the UK music business newspaper 'The Melody Maker' in 1926
Wright, Mary C. (Santa Maria de los Conejos) more...	6 Jun. 1960 Cleveland, Ohio, USA		the greater part of Mary Wright's compositional output is instrumental chamber music. By not aligning herself with any particular aesthetic "camp", she has maintained a unique and original voice. Nevertheless, her frequent subtle references to vernacular music and the use of theatrical elements have enabled her to appeal to a diverse audience
Wrighten (née Matthews), Mrs. Mary Ann	c. 1751	1796	soprano and composer of songs
Wüerst, Richard (Ferdinand)	22 Feb. 1824 Berlin, Germany	9 Oct. 1881 Berlin, Germany	German composer
Wuiet, Caroline	1766 France	1835	novelist and composer, acclaimed as a prodigy at the age of five
Wunsch, Hermann	9 Aug. 1884 Neuss	21 Dec. 1954 Berlin, Germany	German composer
Wuorinen, Charles more...	9 Jun. 1938 New York City, NY, USA	11 Mar. 2020 New York, NY, U.S.A.	American conductor, pianist and composer, for many years the youngest winner of the Pulitzer prize for music
Würfel (or Werfel), Václav Vilém (Wenzel Wilhelm)	6 May 1790 Plánany, nr. Kolin	23 Mar. 1832 Vienna, Austria	Austrian composer
Wurm, Marie	18 May 1860 Southampton, England	21 Jan. 1938 Munich, Germany	English-born composer
Würzburg, Konrad von more...		31 Aug. 1287 Basel	the chief German poet of the second half of the 13th century
Wuytack, Jos	23 Mar. 1935 Ghent, Belgium		Belgian composer, teacher and musicologist
Wybo, Alfons Marie Frans	28 Jun. 1849 Bruges, Belgium	5 Mar. 1931 Bruges, Belgium	Belgian composer and choral director
Wykes, Robert (Arthur)	19 May 1926 Aliquippa, Pa., USA		American composer
Wylde, Henry	27 May 1822	13 Mar. 1890	composer, conductor, sometime Professor of Music at Gresham College, founder of the London College of Music and co-founder of the New Philharmonic Society. It has been suggested by David Cairns that "Berlioz might well have settled in London, probably would have, but for the skulduggery of a certain Dr Henry Wylde, a conductor chiefly remarkable for what one observer described as his "spasmodic gyrations" and "tremulous stick", but who was a more skilful operator behind the scenes than Berlioz. As it was, Berlioz left behind him a host of admirers and well-wishers musicians, writers, publishers, administrators - convinced of his genius."
Wylkynson, Robert (see Wilkinson, Robert)
Wyngaerde, Antonius Van den more...	fl. 15th-century	c. 21 Dec. 1499 Anvers, Belgium	Belgian musician and possibly a composer
Wynne (Thomas), David (Wynne)	2 Jun. 1900 Penderyn, Glam., Wales		Welsh composer
Wyshnegradsky, Ivan Alexandrovich (see Vishnegradsky, Ivan Alexandrovich)