| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Wood, John |
Wood, John Spalding |
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20th century British composer |
| Wood, Thomas |
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1892 |
1950 |
English composer and author. In 1919 he was appointed Director of Music at Tonbridge School in Kent, returning to Oxford in 1924 to teach at Exeter College. During this period he composed several choral-orchestral works including Forty Singing Seamen (1925), Master Mariners (1927) and The Ballad of Hampstead Heath (1927) |
| Woodgate, Leslie |
Woodgate, Herbert Leslie |
1900 |
1961 |
English choral conductor, composer, and writer of books on choral music. Most of his compositions were choral works, but he sometimes wrote for instrumental and orchestral forces. His Op. 1, Hymn to the Virgin and The White Island for male soloist, male choir and orchestra, earned him a Carnegie Prize in 1923. |
| Woodley, Bruce William |
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1942 |
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A member of "The Seekers" group |
| Woodman, Michael S. |
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Music arranger and Editor |
| Woods, Harry MacGregor |
Woods, Henry M. |
1896 |
1970 |
American Tin Pan Alley songwriter and pianist. Despite the fact that he was born with no fingers on his left hand, Woods' mother, a concert singer, encouraged him to play the piano. By 1926, Woods was an established songwriter on Tin Pan Alley, and would become legendary with his new song, "When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)". |
| Woodward, H. H. Reverend |
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1847 |
1909 |
Warden of the choristers attached to Worcestershire cathedral and the King's School in 19th century. |
| Woodworth, George Wallace |
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1902 |
1969 |
American choral conductor, organist, and music educator |
| Woolridge, H. E. |
Woolridge, Harry Ellis |
1845 |
1917 |
English musical antiquary, artist and Professor of Fine Arts. His music collections included transcripts of 17th- and 18th-century Italian music. |
| Wordsworth, William |
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1770 |
1850 |
English poet who introduced Romanticism to English poetry. Wordsworth also showed his affinity for nature with the famous poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud." He became England's poet laureate in 1843, a role he held until his death in 1850. |
| Work, Henry Clay |
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1832 |
1884 |
American composer and songwriter. |
| Work, John W. |
Work, John Wesley III |
1901 |
1967 |
Afro American composer, educator, choral director, musicologist and scholar of African-American folklore and music, not to be confused with his father John Wesley Work Jr, or Grandfather John Wesley Work both of whom were musicians |
| Worman, Jim |
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American teacher and conductor and Director of Trinity Wind ensemble, Trinity University, Texas |
| Wotton, Henry [Sir] |
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1568 |
1639 |
English poet, diplomat and Provost of Eton |
| Wright, David McKee |
Maori Mac;Glen; Historicus; W; |
1869 |
1928 |
English born New Zealand poet. He moved to Sydney in May 1910. Under such pseudonyms as 'George Street', 'Pat O'Maori', 'Mary McCommonwealth' and 'Curse o' Moses', he published some 1600 poems in the Bulletin between 1906 and 1927. |
| Wright, Denis |
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1895 |
1967 |
English composer and conductor of brass band music |
| Wright, Hugh E. |
Wright, Hugh Esterel |
1879 |
1940 |
French Born British actor, Screenwriter and writer, known for Nothing Else Matters (1920), Scrooge (1935) and Garryowen (1920) |
| Wright, Judith |
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1915 |
2000 |
Australian poet |
| Wright, Robert Craig |
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1914 |
2005 |
American composer-lyricist for Hollywood and the musical theatre best known for the Broadway musical and musical film Kismet, |
| Wrubel, Allie |
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1905 |
1973 |
American composer and songwriter. In 1934 he moved to Hollywood to work for Warner Bros. as a contract song writer. Wrubel collaborated with lyricist Ray Gilbert on the song "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" from the film Song of the South which won the Oscar for Best Song in 1947 |
| Wulstan, David |
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1937 |
2017 |
Scholar and musician he established a style of performing Tudor polyphonic music that broke new ground in the 1970s, and has now become mainstream. He did this through directing the Clerkes of Oxenford, the vocal ensemble he founded in 1961 while a student at Magdalen College, Oxford. A composer of carols, anthems, hymns and psalm chants, he also provided some of the incidental music for the BBC drama series I Claudius (1976). |
| Wyche, Sid |
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1922 |
1983 |
American composer who studied at the Juliard School of Music, where he learned to write entire orchestra scores of music, including drums.Sid became an accomplished musician and composer. One of the many under-recognized Black composers, Sidney Wyche was a great contributor to the music community |
| Wyeth, John |
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1770 |
1858 |
American musicologist and publisher |
| Wyle, George |
Weissman, Bernard |
1916 |
2003 |
American orchestra leader and composer |
| Wylie, Murray |
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1956 |
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Contemporary Australian composer of sacred music. Inspired by works like ‘St. Matthew’s Passion’, he began writing music at an early age. He went on to study piano, flute and harp at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. After a period of time as a high school music teacher, he entered full-time ministry work with Brisbane Christian Fellowship. |
| Wynn , Hubert |
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1956 |
One of the pseudonyms for Frederick Hall, editor and engraver for Allans Music Australia |
| Wyrtzen, Don |
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Contemporary American composer. Don has either arranged or composed over 400 anthems and sacred songs, including such favorites as Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow; Love Was When; I'll Praise Your Name, Lord; and Finally Home. In 1981, he received a Dove Award from the Gospel Music Association for his musical, The Love Story. To date, over two million of his musicals and cantatas have been sold. |