Willard Franklin Warch (June 6, 1909 – October 12, 2002)Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1932, 1938-2007 was an American classical cellist and music theorist from Chicago.Cook County, Illinois, Birth Certificates Index, 1871-1922 He was schoolmaster at Punahou School in Honolulu, first cello with the Honolulu Symphony and a professor of Music and Theory at Oberlin College for 30 years.
Warch was a member of the Oberlin Orchestra cello section from 1927 to 1931 and a student at Oberlin College. In 1931, he graduated, having earned both the B.Mus. and M.Mus. degrees at Oberlin.Oberlin Conservatory Magazine 2003 From 1942 to 1945,U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 Warch served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a member of the Army Air Corps Band stationed in England. He authored five music study textbooks as well as Our First 100 Years; a brief history of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music.Oberlin College Library - About the Conservatory Library
He died in Oberlin, Ohio in 2002, aged 93.
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External links A picture of Warch with his cello in 1929