Skip to content
EntityQ503225· pop 18· linked from 481 articles

William Schuman

Sign in to save

Also known as William Howard Schuman

American composer and arts administrator (1910-1992)

Person · Open Library

Born
1910
Died
1992
Works
44

Top works

  • The Arts in Renewal
  • Credendum
  • Symphony for strings in three movements (Symphony no. 5)
  • Undertow
  • Three-score set

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1910-08-04
Active to
1992-02-15

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
5,271
Total plays
23,084

Tags

contemporary classicalcomposerClassicalamericanmodern classical

William Howard Schuman (August 4, 1910–February 15, 1992) was an American composer and music administrator. Born in the Bronx in New York City to Samuel and Rachel Schuman, Schuman was named after the twenty-seventh U.S. president, William Howard Taft (although his family preferred to call him Bill). Schuman played the violin and banjo as a child, but his overwhelming passion was baseball. While still in high school, he formed a dance band, "Billy Schuman and his Alamo Society Orchestra" <a hre

via Last.fm · William Schuman

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

    · 1996 · cited 62,861x

  2. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

    · 1976 · cited 44,803x

  3. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

    · 1983 · cited 39,507x

  4. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

    · 2010 · cited 30,939x

  5. Preparation of Graphitic Oxide

    · 1958 · cited 28,676x

via Crossref · CC0