Whittaker, W(illiam) G(illies) (1876–1944)

English educationist, conductor, editor, and composer. He edited much early music, including Byrd's Great Service (conducting it for the first time in 300 years at Newcastle, Westminster, and Oxford in 1924). He published miscellaneous essays and a book on Bach's cantatas.

He taught and conduced choirs at Armstrong and King's Colleges, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and founded a Bach Choir there. In 1929 he was appointed professor of music at Glasgow University and principal of the Scottish Academy of Music there.

Works Dramatic overture and choruses for Aeschylus' Choreophorae.

Choral A Lykewake Dirge for chorus and orchestra;

Chamber piano quintet Among the Northumbrian Hills.

Other part songs and folk-song arrangements.