Walter Hartley

Walter S. Hartley ( born February 21, 1927 in Washington DC) is an American composer and music educator.

Hartley began at the age of five years to compose and studied until 1953 at the Eastman School of Music. Among his teachers were Burrill Phillips, Thomas Canning, Herbert Elwell, Bernard Rogers, Howard Hanson and Dante Fiorillo.

He taught at five universities, also from 1956 to 1964 at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in piano and composition, and is Professor Emeritus of the State University of New York at Fredonia.

Hartley composed over two hundred works, performed by ensembles such as the National Symphony Orchestra, the Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra, the Eastman - Rochester Orchestra and the Eastman Wind Ensemble. Many of his compositions in particular for wind ensemble and saxophone are now part of the standard literature for these instruments.

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• Walter Harley's homepage with complete catalog of works
• Tritone Press & Tenuto Publication - Walter Hartley

• American composer
• Music teacher
• Born 1927
• Man