• William Mayer (November 18, 1925 – November 17, 2017) was an American composer, best known for his prize-winning opera A Death in the Family. Mayer was...
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  • William or Bill Mayer may refer to: Bill Mayer (born 1951), American illustrator William Mayer (composer) (1925–2017), American composer William A. Mayer...
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  • Luftwaffe ace William Mayer (composer) (1925–2017), American composer William Daniel Mayer (born 1940), American politician Youngmi Mayer, American comedian...
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    William Boyce (baptised 11 September 1711 – 7 February 1779) was an English composer and organist. Like Beethoven later on, he became deaf but continued...
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  • American composer, arranger and musician Willie E. May, American chemist and standards and technology administrator William Mays (disambiguation) William Mayes...
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  • William Ross (born July 20, 1948) is an American composer, orchestrator, arranger, conductor and music director. Ross is the recipient of three Primetime...
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    20 million albums worldwide. Mayer was born on October 16, 1977, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. His father, Richard Mayer (b. 1927), was principal at Central...
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  • William Green (1962-) is a New Zealand composer, pianist and writer. He lives in Auckland and composes opera, musical theatre, silent film, dance and...
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  • William Duckworth (January 13, 1943 – September 13, 2012) was an American composer, author, educator, and Internet pioneer. He wrote more than 200 pieces...
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    William Walker (May 6, 1809 – September 24, 1875) was an American Baptist song leader, shape note "singing master", and compiler of four shape note tunebooks...
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  • William Levi Dawson (September 26, 1899 – May 2, 1990) was an American composer, choir director, professor, and musicologist. Of African American heritage...
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  • William Hawes (1785 – 18 February 1846) was an English musician and composer. He was the Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal and musical director...
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  • William Reeve may refer to: William Reeve (composer), English theatre composer and organist William Reeve (bishop), Anglican priest William Reeve (missionary)...
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  • Timothy Gowers (William Timothy Gowers, born 1963), British mathematician Patrick Gowers (William Patrick Gowers, 1936–2014), an English composer Gowers, a...
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  • William Parsons may refer to: William Parsons (composer and copyist) (fl.1545–1563), English Renaissance composer and copyist from Wells William Parsons...
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    Daisy von Scherler Mayer, sometimes credited as Daisy Mayer (born September 14, 1966), is an American film and television director. Mayer is the daughter...
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    William Mundy (c. 1529–1591) was a Renaissance English composer of sacred music and father of composer John Mundy. Over four hundred years after his death...
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  • (1777–1813), English composer William Russell (fiction writer) (1806–1876), English writer of detective and other stories William Clark Russell (1844–1911)...
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    (b. 1515) May 3 – Giorgio Mainerio, Italian composer (b. 1530) May 5 – Charlotte of Bourbon, Princess consort of Orange, married to William I of Orange...
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    William Elden Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, a Grammy...
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    William Thomas Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger who collaborated with bandleader...
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    former president of the Manhattan Graphics Center. Her father, William Mayer, was a composer. Her paternal great-great-grandfather was Emanuel Lehman, one...
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    William Grant Still Jr. (May 11, 1895– December 3, 1978) was an American composer of nearly two hundred works, including five symphonies, four ballets...
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  • William A. Jurgens (July 3, 1928 — September 1, 1982) was an American Roman Catholic priest, composer, historian, musician, and translator of patristic...
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  • linguist and expert on ceramics William Albright (musician) (1944–1998), American composer, pianist and organist William Donald Albright (1881–1946), Canadian...
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  • politician William Gardiner (mathematician) (died 1752), English mathematician William Gardiner (English composer) (1770–1853), English composer William Gardiner...
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  • This is a list of composers of 20th-century classical music, sortable by name, year of birth, year of death, nationality, notable works, and remarks....
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  • William James Mathias CBE (1 November 1934 – 29 July 1992) was a Welsh composer noted for choral works. William Mathias was born in Whitland, Carmarthenshire...
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  • William Smith (c. 27 March 1603 – April 1645) was an English composer from the city of Durham. He is chiefly known for his set of choral preces and responses...
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  • Michael Harding Oliver (10 March 1950 – 29 April 1992) was an English composer, best known for his operas. Oliver was born on 10 March 1950 in Chester...
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