Willy Burkhard

Willy Burkhard (* April 17, 1900 in Leubringen ( at Biel), † June 18, 1955 in Zurich ) was a Swiss composer.

Willy Burkhard attended the teacher training college Muristalden and then studied at the cathedral organist Ernst Graf, in Leipzig by Sigfrid Karg- Elert, in Munich with Walter Courvoisier and in Paris with Max d' Ollone in Bern. 1924 Burkhard took up residence as a private music teacher in Bern, where he was appointed in 1928 as a teacher of music theory at the Conservatory. His most important works include the oratorios The vision of Isaiah (1933-1935) and the year (1940-1941), the Gotthelf opera The Black Spider (1948) and the a cappella choral piece The Flood (1954 /55).

The estate of Willy Burkhard is preserved in the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel.