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Willan, Healey [James Healey]
composer, teacher, organ, choir master
| born: 12 Oct 1880 |
Balham, London, England |
Source: 1 |
| died: 16 Feb 1968 |
Toronto, Ontario / province, Canada |
Source: 1 |
Irving, S.
CRCCO examination study
The church music of Healey Willan
American Organist: 30:34 May 1996
bibliog
Paterson, S.
Listening post Willan : an Apostrophe to the Heavenly Hosts (Bryn Nixon, organ; Vancouver Chamber Choir; John Washburn, conductor) (Virgin Classics CD)
Classical Music Magazine 18:25 N4 1995
illustr.
Courteau, Bernard
Asselin, Andre
Panorama de la musique Canadienne et du Quebec
Preface de Bernard Courteau poete et ecrivain quebecois
Montreal: Editions Asselin-Spadari, 1993
MacMillan, Rick
Listening post Britten : Canadian Carnival, Op. 19; Four Sea Interludes, Op. 33a (from Peter Grimes)
Willan : Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer, conductor) (CBC CD)
Classical Music Magazine 16:33 N5 1993
illustr.
Steblin, Rita
Healey Willan's inscribed copy of John Coulter's Deirdre of the Sorrows
Canadian University Music Review/revue de Musique des Universites Canadiennes 12:113-22 N1 1992
bibliog mus
Steblin, Rita
Healey Willan's inscribed copy of John Coulter's Deirdre of the Sorrows.
Canadian University Music Review/Revue de musique des universites canadiennes 12/I (1992): 113-22.
Clarke, F.R.
Healey Willan's Requiem
American Organist: 26:52-3 Jul 1992
mus
Poultney, David
Dictionary of western church music
By David Poultny
Chicago: American Library Association, 1991, 234 p.
Bierley, Paul E.
Rehrig, William H.
The heritage encyclopedia of band music : composers and their music
Edited by Paul E. Bierley
William H. Rehrig
Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1991
Number of People : 8,916
Plaque honoring Healey Willan.
Diapason: (US) 81:2 Jan 1990
Barlow, J.
Published arrangements of The Beggar's Opera, 1729-1990
Musical Times, 131:536-8 Oct 1990
mus
Plaque honoring Healey Willan.
Choral Journal 30:42 N5 1989
Canadian composers mini biographies
Sponsored by The Canadian Federation of Music Teachers' Associations
Beatty, Carolyn
Robert, Veronique
Gagne, Mireille
Bouhalassa, Ned
Hand, Mark
Marois, Gilles
Auer, Simone
Repertoire des compositeurs agrees
Coordination: Carolyn Beatty, Mark Hand
Revision: Simone Auer, Ned Bouhalassa, Mireille Gagne
Traduction: Gilles Marois, Veronique Robert
Toronto: Centre de Musique Canadiene, 1989
Clarke, Frederick
Healey Willan's unfinished Requiem.
Musical Canada: words and music honouring Helmut Kallmann, p. 203-210. J. Beckwith and F. Hall, eds.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.
Bryant, G.
Healey Willan at St. Mary Magdalene
American Organist: 22:39 Jun 1988
biog port
Suppan, Wolfgang
Lexikon des Blasmusikwesens
3. Auflage des Lexikons des Blasmusikwesens
Herausgegeben in Verbindung mit dem Bund Deutscher Blasmusikverbande
Freiburg-Tiengen: Blasmusikverlag Schulz, 1988, 386 p.
Number of People : 2,925
Premieres
Music Scene N357:26 Sep-Oct 1987
Grove, George / Sir
British opera in retrospect. A project to encourage the performance of British operas
Sponsored and organised by the British Music Society for European music year, 1985
Opera Project Management Committee, 1986, 149 p.
Noble, W.
Canadian organ composition since 1945
American Organist: 18:50 Feb 1984
Clarke, F.R.C.
Healey Willan : life and music.
Toronto, Buffalo: Univ. of Toronto Press 1983. XII, 300 S.
Mit Ill.
Renwick, William Jonathan Michael
[Review]
The Music Review. 44 (1983), S. 139-141.
McLean, Hugh
Healey Willan and the Tractarian Movement.
Studies in music from the University of Western Ontario 8 (1983): 25-36.
Clarke, Frederick
Healey Willan : life and music.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. xii, 300 p.
Shand, Patricia Martin
Musiques canadienne : oeuvres choisies a l'intention des professeurs
Toronto: Centre de Musique Canadienne, 1982
Renwick, William Jonathan Michael
The contrapunctal style of Healey Willan
British Columbia (Vancouver). 1982. dissertation.
Wagner, E.
The holiness of beauty : Healey Willan as church musician
Diapason: (US) 72:1+ Feb 1981
port
Concert
Music Scene N317:16 Jan-Feb 1981
Note: revised orchestra version
A London letter
Musical Opinion 104:128 Jan 1981
Note: centenary concert, St. Michaels, Cornhill
Beechey, Gwilym
The organ music of Healey Willan (1880-1968)
Musical Opinion 104:201-4+ Mar 1981
illustr.
Clarke, Frederick
Healey Willan's quest for a string quartet.
Canadian University Music Review/Revue de musique des universites canadiennes 2 (1981): 166-76.
Kallmann, Hellmuth
Potvin, Gilles
Winters, Kenneth
Encyclopedia of music in Canada
Edited by Hellmut Kallman, Gilles Potvin, Kenneth Winters
Toronto: University of Toronto, 1981, 1076 p.
Number of People : 2,193
Willia, Stephen C.
Toomey, Kathleen M.
Musicians in Canada
A bio-bibliographical finding list
Edited by Kathleen M. Toomey & Stephen C. Williams
Ottawa: Canadian Association of Music Libraries, 1981, 185 p.
Number of People : 3,053
Ridout, G.
Healey Willan : Irish by extraction, English by birth, Canadian by adoption and Scotch by absorption
Musicanada N42:4-6 Spring 1980
biog cover ports
also in French
Bryant, G.B.
The hymn tunes of Healey Willan (1880-1968)
biog il
Leach, Gerald
British composer profiles.
A biographical dictionary and chronology of past British composers 1800-1979
Maidenhead: British Music Society, 1980
Bryant, G.
Choral works of Healey Willan
American Organist: 14:42-5 Oct 1980
illustr.
Note: includes condensed list
Healey Willan centennial celebration 1980 : programme
Musicanada N42:20 Spring 1980
cover port
Hardwick, Peter
Healey Willan's organ miniatures
Musical Times, 121:651+ Oct 1980
illustr.
Healey Willan : a discography
Musicanada N42:2+ Spring 1980
cover port
Hardwick, Peter
Healey Willan's organ miniatures.
Musical Times, 121 (1980), S. 651, 653-654.
Mit 2 Notenbeisp.
Hamlin, Keith Allan
The plainsong use of Healey Willan
A study of Dr. Willan's role in the restoration of plainsong to the worship of the Anglican Church
Toronto (Trinity College). 1980. dissertation.
Healey Willan centennial celebration
Performing Arts in Canada 17:16-17 N1 1980
biog
Clarke, Frederick
Two unpublished instrumental works by Healey Willan.
Canadian University Music Review/Revue de musique des universites canadiennes 1 (1980) 1-7
Bryant, G.
Healey Willan
A plea for his lesser known works
Musicanada N42:18-19 Spring 1980
cover port
also in French
Johnson, Norman Gary
Healey Willan, 1880-1968
American Organist: 14:34-6 Oct 1980
ports
Robinson, A.F.
Healey Willan remembered
Journal of Country Music: 22:7-9 Oct 1980
Note: includes list of music in print
Robinson, A.F.
Healey Willan remembered
Journal of Country Music: 22:8-10 Sep 1980
biog port
[Healey Willan]
American Organist: 14:63 Apr 1980
Sadie, Stanley
The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians
Number of People : 20,506
Here and there
Diapason: (US) 71:14 Mar 1980
illustr.
Note: historical plaque unveiled
Hardwick, Peter
An assessment of the organ miniatures of Healey Willan.
Canadian University Music Review/Revue de musique des universites canadiennes 1 (1980): 8-21.
Willan Week a grand finale to centenary year
Performing Arts in Canada 17:18 N4 1980
il port
Bryant, G.
Healey Willan : a personal view
Music Scene N311:6+ Jan-Feb 1980
biog cover port
Henderson, C.N.
Editor's note
American Organist: 14:opp p. 1 Oct 1980
cover il
Johnson, Norman Gary
Organ works of Healey Willan
American Organist: 14:36-8 Oct 1980
biog port
Campbell-Yukl, Joylin
Willan's Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue
American Organist: 14:39-41 Oct 1980
il port
Centenary of Healey Willan's birth to be marked in 1980.
American Organist: 13:21 N6 1979
Robijns, Jozef
Zijlstra, Miep
Algemene muziek enciclopedie
hoofdred., J. Robijns en Miep Zijlstra
Haarlem: De Haan, [1979]-1984
Number of People : 16,262
Johnson, Norman Gary
Healey Willan (1880-1968) his life and influences important to his music
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville). 1979. dissertation.
Laplante, Louise
Compositeurs canadiens contemporains
Montreal: Presse de 'Universite' du Quebec, 1977
Bradley, Ian L.
Twentieth century Canadian composers volume one
Agincourt, Ontario: GLC Publishing, 1977
Hayden, Andrew
British hymn writers and composers
A check-list
Croydon, England: Hymn Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 1977
Number of People : 2,118
Campbell-Yukl, Joylin
Healey Willan : the independent organ works.
Missouri (Kansas City). 1976. D.M.A. dissertation. vi, 219p.
Bohle, Bruce
International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians.
10th edition
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1975
Sundstrom, Einar
Morin, Gosta
Moberg, Carl-Allan
Sohlman's musiklexikon
2. rev. och utvidgade uppl.
Redaktion: Gosta Morin, Carl-Alan Moberg och Einar Sundstrom
Stockholm: Sohlman Forlag, 1975-1979, 5 v.
Number of People : 10,962
MacMillan, Keith
Beckwith, John
Contemporary Canadian composers
Edited by Keith MacMillan and John Beckwith
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1975, 248 p.
Vinton, John
Dictionary of contemporary music
Edited by John Vinton
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1974, 834 p.
Number of People : 1,053
Rosner, Helmut
Bulling, Burchard
Frank, Paul
Noetzel, Florian
Kurzgefasstes Tonkunstler Lexikon
Fortfuhrt von Burchard Bulling, Florian Noetzel, Helmut Rosner
Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, 1974
Note: Zweiter Teil: Erganzungen und Erweiterungen seit 1937
Number of People : 16,276
Bull, Storm
Index to biographies of contemporary composers
Vol. II
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1974, 567 p.
Number of People : 6,198
Napier, Ronald
A guide to Canada's composers
Willowdale, Ontario: Avondale Press, 1973, 50 p.
Bryant, Giles
Healey Willan catalogue.
Ottawa: National Library of Canada (1972). 174 p.
Beckwith, John
Healey Willan.
The Canadian Forum 52/623 (December 1972): 32-34.
Riemann, Hugo
Musiklexikon : Erganzungsband.
Thistle, Lauretta
The Healey Willan Exhibition.
The Canada Music Book/Des Cahiers canadiens de musique, Vol. 4 (Spring-Summer, 1972), p. 117-119.
Blom, Eric
Everyman's Dictionary of Music
New York: St Martins's Press, 1971
Baker, T.
Baker's Biographical Dictionary.
5th ed: suppl.
New York: G. Schirmer, 1971
Creative Canada.
2 vols.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971
Honneger, Marc
Dictionnaire de la musique
Publie sous la direction de Marc Honneger
Number of People : 6,183
Marwick, William E.
The sacred choral music of Healey Willan.
Michigan State. 1970. Ph.D. v, 278f
Encyclopedia Canadiana
Ottawa, Grolier Society of Canada, 1970. v. 10, p.327.
Walter, Arnold
Aspects de la musique au Canada.
Edited par Arnold Walter
Montreal, Centre de psychologie et de pedagogie, 1970. (passim).
Marwick, William E.
The sacred choral music of Healey Willan
Michigan State (East Lansing). 1970. Ph.D. Thesis. 206 p.
Index to music necrology : 1968 necrology
Notes (Music Library Association), 1969, p. 701
Waiter, Arnold
Aspects of Music in Canada.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969
Walter, Arnold
Aspects of music in Canada.
Edited by Arnold Walter.
Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1969. (passim).
Grobin, M.S.
[Religious work] our composers on microgroove
Musicanada. no.22, September 1969. p. 12.
Telschow, Frederick H.
The sacred music of Healey Willan
Eastman School of Music (Rochester, N.Y.). 1969. Ph.D. Thesis.
Wimbush, Roger
Obituary
Gramophone. V. 45, April 1968. p. 526.
Coulter, John
Lament for Healey Willan [poem]
Arts and Letters Club. (Toronto). Monthly letter. February 1968.
1880-1968
American organist. v.51, March 1968. p.2.
Drynan, George K.
Drynan, Margaret
Healey Willan : his last days.
Diapason. V. 59, April 1968. p. 3.
Coulter, John
[Untitled account of collaboration with Healey Willan]
Arts and Letters Club. (Toronto). Monthly letter. February 1968.
Wyton, Alec
Healey Willan's Musical London (interview)
Music: A.G.O.R.C.C.O. Magazine, Vol. 2 (January, 1968), p. 32-33, 52-53.
Littler, William
Healey Willan : a life devoted to music.
Toronto daily star. February 17, 1968. p. 32.
In memoriam.
BMI: the many worlds of music. April 1968. p.17.
MacMillan, Ernest
Healey Willan ... 1880-1968 [editorial]
Diapason. v.59, April 1968. p.20.
Mercer, Ruby
Healey Willan.
Opera Canada, Vol. 9, No. 2 (May, 1968), p. 16-17, 44.
Obituary
Musical Times, V. 109, April 1968. p. 362.
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