| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| White, Verdine |
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Member of American musical group Earth, Wind and Fire |
| Whitehead, Alfred Ernest |
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1887 |
1974 |
English-born Canadian composer, organist, choirmaster, music educator, painter whose music is tonal and sometimes modal. His output of motets and anthems was extensive |
| Whitehead, Gillian |
Whitehead, Dame Gillian Karawe |
1941 |
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New Zealand composer. She studied composition at the University of Sydney with Peter Sculthorpe from 1964–65, graduating MMus in 1966. She then joined the staff of the Composition School at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Whitehead has written a wide range of music including works for solo, chamber, choral, orchestral and operatic forces, |
| Whiting, Richard A. |
Whiting, Richard Armstrong |
1891 |
1938 |
American composer of popular songs including the standards "Hooray for Hollywood", "Ain't We Got Fun?" and "On the Good Ship Lollipop". He also wrote lyrics occasionally |
| Whitman, Walt |
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1819 |
1892 |
American poet whose verse collection Leaves of Grass is a landmark in the history of American literature. |
| Whittaker, Roger |
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1936 |
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Kenyan/British singer-songwriter and musician, who was born in Nairobi. His music is an eclectic mix of folk music and popular songs |
| Whittaker, William Gillies |
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1876 |
1944 |
English-Scottish composer, pedagogue, conductor, musicologist, Bach scholar, publisher and writer. He spent his life promoting music |
| Whittemore, Joan |
Whittemore, (Sister) Joan |
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American Venetian scholar, noted composer, editor, and guest conductor, has served as clinician for the College Music Society, the American Guild of Organists, and the American Choral Directors Association, and was the founding director of the Carondelet Women’s Chorus and the Carondelet Children’s Chorus. She currently teaches music theory at St. Louis University and voice at St. Louis Community College, Meramec and is listed in Who’s Who of American Women. |
| Whitwell, Sally |
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1974 |
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Australian classical music pianist, composer, arranger, conductor and teacher |
| Whitworth, John |
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1921 |
2013 |
British countertenor, teacher and organist who enjoyed an international career and went on to become a professor at the Guildhall School of Music. |
| Whyte-Melville, George John |
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1821 |
1878 |
Scottish novelist of the sporting-field and a poet. He wrote several historical novels and several volumes of poetry |
| Wiant, Bliss Mitchell |
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1895 |
1975 |
Bliss sought out classical and folk Chinese melodies to combine with Chinese texts to produce original hymns for use by Chinese Christians |
| Wickham, Hannah |
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Music Publisher and arranger |
| Widdicombe, Trevor |
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Music arranger of classical music, carols and gospel songs |
| Widdop, Walter |
|
1892 |
1949 |
British operatic tenor who is best remembered for his Wagnerian performances. His repertoire also encompassed works by Verdi, Leoncavallo, Handel and Bach. |
| Widor, Charles Marie |
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1845 |
1937 |
French organist, composer and teacher. Widor wrote music for a wide variety of instruments and ensembles (some of his songs for voice and piano are especially notable) and composed four operas and a ballet, but only his works for organ are played with any regularity today |
| Wigglesworth, Leigh |
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Leigh Wigglesworth OAM received her medal for services to music as an artistic director and choral conductor, and to the community. She is based in Melbourne and has a passion for choral music |
| Wigmore, Paul |
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1925 |
2014 |
British poet who working with established composers, wrote words for both School and Church choirs. He wrote also for the church congregation, words that are essentially singable and always in the traditional style. |
| Wikander, David |
|
1884 |
1955 |
Swedish musicologist, organist and composer. |
| Wilberg, Mack |
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1955 |
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American composer, arranger, conductor, choral clinician and the current music director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir |
| Wilbur, Richard Purdy |
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1921 |
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American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989. |
| Wilby, Philip |
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1949 |
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English composer and musician who develped a serious commitment to composition during the years at Oxford and, having gained his B Mus in composition in 1971, Wilby continued to write music even while working as a professional violinist (first at Covent Garden and later with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra). He returned to Yorkshire in 1972 and is Principal Lecturer in Composition at the University of Leeds. Wilby has also given much time to writing for liturgical purposes |
| Wilbye, John |
|
1574 |
1638 |
English madrigal composer. Wilbye is probably the most famous of all the English madrigalists; his pieces have long been favourites and are often included in modern collections |
| Wilcher, Phillip |
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1958 |
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Australian pianist and classical music composer and was a founding member of the children's music group, The Wiggles. When Wilcher published his first work, "Daybreak", at the age of 14, he was one of the youngest classical composers in Australia. Wilcher has published over 100 piano-related works |
| Wild, Elizabeth |
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Music Editor |
| Wild, James |
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Music Arranger |
| Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty |
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1854 |
1900 |
Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, |
| Wilhousky, Peter J. |
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1902 |
1978 |
American composer, educator, and choral conductor of Ukrainian ethnic extraction. |
| Wilkins, Ronnie |
Wilkins, Ronald Stephen |
1941 |
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American musician and songwriter partnered with John Hurley responsible for writing the hit songs "Love of the Common People" and "Son of a Preacher Man". |
| Wilkinson, Philip G. |
Wilkinson, Philip George |
1923 |
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English 20th century composer and arranger |