# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-g-whittaker
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:35:39.597Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-g-whittaker"
name: "William G. Whittaker"
slug: "william-g-whittaker"
description: "William Gillies Whittaker was an English composer, pedagogue, conductor, musicologist, Bach scholar, publisher and writer. He spent his life promoting music. The University of Durham, where he once studied and taught, called him one of \"Britain's most influential musicians during the first half of the twentieth century\". An autodidact, he was a prodigious creator of Gebrauchsmusik."
tagline: "English-Scottish composer, pedagogue, conductor, musicologist, Bach scholar, publisher and writer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/William_G._Whittaker.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1876-07-23"
deathDate: "1944-07-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.64
  momentum:             1.366906474820144
  historical:           7.472354666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3175252"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AC%D9%89._%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ويليام جى. وايتاكير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gilles_Whittaker"
    title: "William Gilles Whittaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Whittaker"
    title: "William G. Whittaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Whittaker"
    title: "William G. Whittaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Whittaker"
    title: "William G. Whittaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Whittaker"
    title: "William G. Whittaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Whittaker"
    title: "William G. Whittaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d795b554-1085-49a5-9204-edf4f79ef8a6"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2798389"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump