William Glock

Sir William Glock ( May 3, 1908 in London, † 28 June 2000) was a British music manager and from 1959 to 1972 Director of Radio 3, the music program of the BBC.

The pupil of Artur Schnabel was music critic of the Daily Telegraph and the Observer from 1934 to 1945. In 1947 he founded at the suggestion of the beak Dartington Summer School of Music, which he directed until 1979. Here the works of contemporary composers have been performed, accompanied by courses for musicians. Here worked with, among others, the Amadeus Quartet, Nadia Boulanger, Paul Hindemith, Igor Stravinsky, Boris Blacher and George Enescu. As head of the cultural radio BBC he was from 1960 to 1973 also responsible for the legendary Proms. Here he was responsible for the performance of works by Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Luigi Nono, Luigi Dallapiccola, Elliott Carter, Michael Tippett, Robert Gerhard, Witold Lutosławski, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hans Werner Henze and György Ligeti. Peter Maxwell Davies dedicated his three works: . Symphony No. 1 in 1976, Unbroken Circle in 1984 and 1970, he was knighted Mishkenot 1988 for his contributions to the musical life in Britain.

• Music critic
• Person ( BBC )
• Briton
• Born in 1908
• Died in 2000
• Man