Willard Warch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Willard Warch

American musician

Date of Birth: 06-Jun-1909

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 12-Oct-2002

Profession: cellist, musicologist, music theorist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Willard Franklin Warch (June 6, 1909 – October 12, 2002) was an American classical cellist and music theorist from Chicago.
He was schoolmaster at Punahou School in Honolulu, first cello with the Honolulu Symphony and a Professor of Music and Theory at Oberlin College for 30 years. Warch was a member of the Oberlin Orchestra cello section from 1927–31 and a student at Oberlin College.
In 1931, he graduated, having earned both the B.Mus.
and M.Mus.
degrees at Oberlin.
From 1942–45, Warch served in the U.S.
Army Air Corps as a member of the Army Air Corps Band stationed in England.
He authored five music study textbooks as well as Our First 100 Years; a brief history of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music.He died in Oberlin, Ohio in 2002, aged 93.