William Whittaker

Life

Born: July 23, 1876

Died: July 5, 1944

Biography

William Gillies Whittaker (July 23, 1876 – July 5, 1944) was a British writer, composer and arranger.

List of choral works

• Blow the wind southerly
• Bobby Shaftoe
• Bonny at morn
• The bonny fisher lad
• Buy broom buzzems
• Ca’ Hawkie through the watter
• The Deil’s Awa’
• Dolli-A
• Elsie Marley
• The Hexhamshire lass
• Newburn lads
• Noble Squire Dacre
• The Northumbrian bagpipes
• O! the Oak and the Ash
• Pelton (or Felton) lonnin’
• “Sair fyel’d hinny”
• Sir John Fenwick
• The water of Tyne
• The willow tree

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External links

• Biography on the Bach Cantata Website