| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Waddell, Chrysogonus |
|
1930 |
2008 |
American Trappist monk, composer and author |
| Wade, John Francis |
|
1711 |
1786 |
English hymnist who is sometimes credited with writing and composing the hymn "Adeste Fideles" (which was later translated to "O Come All Ye Faithful") even though the actual authorship of the hymn remains uncertain. The earliest copies of the hymn all bear his signature. |
| Wadely, Frederick William |
Wadeley, Frederick William |
1882 |
1970 |
English organist and composer of sacred music |
| Waelrant, Hubert |
Waelrand, Hubert; Waelrand,Hubertus |
1518 |
1595 |
Flemish composer, teacher, and music editor of the Renaissance. As a composer he was a member of the generation contemporary with Palestrina, |
| Wager, Willis J. |
|
1911 |
1981 |
American professor of Literature at Boston University. Mr. Wager was a longtime chairman of the Division of Humanities at Boston University and served in that position until his retirement in 1977. |
| Waggoner, David |
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David is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Music and has a masters degree in music from Eastern Michigan University. He has composed many pieces for choirs, handbells, and other instruments. |
| Wagner, Douglas Edward |
|
1952 |
|
American composer, music educator, conductor and organist. He was a board member of the Choristers Guild and also worked as an editor at the music publisher Lorenz Publishing Company. Also as organist and choirmaster he has worked in various churches. As a composer, he has won several awards from ASCAP. He wrote works for choirs, band, orchestra, organ, piano and vocal music. |
| Wagner, Franz |
|
1870 |
1929 |
Organist in the Grünenwaldkirche in Berlin, and wrote music for piano, organ and male voice choir. |
| Wagner, Richard |
Wagner, Wilhelm Richard |
1813 |
1883 |
German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. |
| Wagner, Roger |
|
1914 |
1992 |
American choral musician, administrator and educator. In 1945, Roger Wagner became the supervisor of young choruses for the City of Los Angeles, most notably the "Los Angeles Concert Youth Chorus." It was from a madrigal group of twelve of these singers that the Roger Wagner Chorale was born in 1946. |
| Wailes, Andrew |
|
1971 |
|
Australian conductor |
| Wailes, Marylin |
|
1896 |
1990 |
Painter, musician and musicologist |
| Wainwright, John |
|
1723 |
1768 |
English composer. His only known musical publication is A Collection of Psalm Tunes, Anthems, Hymns, and Chants: it can be dated by an advertisement in the Manchester Mercury on 21 October 1766, The only item which is now in widespread use is one of the Christmas hymns, 'Christians, awake, salute the happy morn' |
| Waldteufel, Émile |
|
1837 |
1915 |
French, of Jewish Alsatian descent, pianist, conductor and composer of dance music. |
| Wales, Evelyn |
|
1893 |
1969 |
Composer, lyricist and arranger |
| Walker, Dan |
|
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| Walker, Gwyneth |
|
1947 |
|
American composer of works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, chorus, solo voice, and individual instruments |
| Walker, Jerry Jeff |
Crosby, Ronald Clyde |
1942 |
2020 |
American country music singer-songwriter. He was a leading figure in the outlaw country music movement. He was best known for having written the 1968 song "Mr. Bojangles". |
| Walker, Peter |
|
1938 |
|
American folk guitarist. Born in 1938 in Boston, MA. His music often referenced flamenco and Indian classical forms. |
| Walker, Robert |
|
1936 |
|
Dr Robert Walker has spent a lifetime in music education on three continents. He held two Chairs in music education in Canada before coming to Australia and has published widely. He was Chief Examiner for Music for the International Baccalaureate 1987–1993, and Chair of the Research Commission of the International Society for Music Education 1998–2000. |
| Wallace, William Vincent |
|
1812 |
1865 |
Irish composer and musician. He is mainly known as an opera composer, with key works such as Maritana (1845) and Lurline (1847/60) |
| Waller, Edmund |
|
1606 |
1687 |
English poet and politician. He wrote poetic tributes to both Oliver Cromwell (1655) and Charles II (1660). |
| Waller, Fats |
Waller, Thomas Wright |
1904 |
1943 |
American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer, whose innovations to the Harlem stride style laid the groundwork for modern jazz piano, and whose best-known compositions, "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose", were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1984 and 1999 |
| Waller, Laurice |
|
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Singer and Songwriter associated with Billy Graham crusades |
| Walmisley, Thomas Attwood |
|
1814 |
1856 |
organist and composer of church music and glees. Walmisley was organist of Croydon Parish Church in 1830 before becoming organist at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1833, and there he soon became prominent by his anthems and other compositions. He was simultaneously organist for the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge. |
| Walsh, Frances Rosemary Walsh |
|
1959 |
|
New Zealand lyricist, musician. Partner of film-maker Peter Jackson |
| Walter, Lana |
|
1948 |
|
American music educator and composer. In addition to pieces for children's choir she composed several musicals for children |
| Walters, Edmund |
|
1931 |
2003 |
for twenty years principal lecturer and head of music at Liverpool College. Since 1968 he has been well-known as chorus master to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society, and his many compositions for this ensemble have become recorded and performed throughout the world. |
| Walters, Oscar W. |
Walters, Oscar Walter |
1889 |
1948 |
Australian composer and lyricist |
| Walters, Richard |
Walters, Rick |
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Music arranger |