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Mar 26, 1894 Coldwater, Michigan, United States Died on 09 May 1973 (aged 79)
Pianist and composer
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About Mark Wessel Composer
- Mark Wessel (March 26, 1894 – May 9, 1973) was an American pianist and composer. Wessel was born in Coldwater, Michigan, and graduated from Northwestern School of Music, now known as Bienen School of Music; he later taught piano and theory there.
- When Wessel left Northwestern, he became a professor of piano and composition at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Wessel was a former pupil of Arnold Schoenberg.
- He was twice awarded Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1930 and 1932.
- He was also the recipient in 1930 of a Pulitzer Scholarship to further his education in Europe (Anon.
- 1930).
- In the 1938 contest of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society his choral-orchestral work The King of Babylon won honorable mention, while his former student David Van Vactor won the competition with his Symphony in D (Anon.
- 1938a; Anon.
- 1938b). He died on May 9, 1973 in Orchard Lake, Oakland County, Michigan (Michigan Department of Vital and Health Records 1998).
