William G. Whittaker
✓ Source-basedstableEnglish-Scottish composer, pedagogue, conductor, musicologist, Bach scholar, publisher and writer
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William Gillies Whittaker was an English composer, pedagogue, conductor, musicologist, Bach scholar, publisher and writer. He spent his life promoting music.
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St George's Church and Green in Jesmond, where Whittaker played the organ as a schoolboy
The Literary and Philosophical Society in the centre of Newcastle, where Whittaker frequently attended and gave lectures
Letter of congratulations from Gustav Holst on Whittaker's appointment in Glasgow![Former Belmont Parish Church, Great George Street, Hillhead, where Whittaker conducted the last concert of the Bach Cantata Choir in Byrd's Great Service and Bach's Motet "Sing ye to the Lord" on 29 March 1941[6]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Belmont_Church_Glasgow_2010.jpg/500px-Belmont_Church_Glasgow_2010.jpg)
Former Belmont Parish Church, Great George Street, Hillhead, where Whittaker conducted the last concert of the Bach Cantata Choir in Byrd's Great Service and Bach's Motet "Sing ye to the Lord" on 29 March 1941[6]
Among the Northumbrian Hills, title page, 1922Musicians from United Kingdom 6
About this person
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.
Country
United KingdomCategory
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1876 to 1944 · aged 67
Written about in
7 languages
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