Mark Wessel (composer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mark Wessel (composer)

Pianist and composer

Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1894

Place of Birth: Coldwater, Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 09-May-1973

Profession: composer, pianist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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).