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Olly Wilson (Olly Woodrow Wilson, Jr.) was born on 7 September, 1937 in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., is an American composer (1937–2018). Discover Olly Wilson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?
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Olly Woodrow Wilson, Jr. |
| Occupation |
Composer, musician, musicologist |
| Age |
81 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Virgo |
| Born |
7 September 1937 |
| Birthday |
7 September |
| Birthplace |
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Date of death |
2018 |
| Died Place |
Berkeley, California, U.S. |
| Nationality |
United States
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Olly Wilson Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Olly Wilson Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Olly Wilson worth at the age of 81 years old? Olly Wilson’s income source is mostly from being a successful Composer. He is from United States. We have estimated Olly Wilson's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
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Under Review |
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Olly Woodrow Wilson, Jr. (September 7, 1937 – March 12, 2018) was an American composer of contemporary classical music, pianist, double bassist, and a musicologist.
He was one of the most preeminent composers of African American descent in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
He is known for developing a list of Heterogenous Sound Ideals that is widely used to dissect different aspects of music, with an emphasis on African culture.
He graduated with a B.M. degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1959, and earned an M.M. degree in music composition in 1960 from the University of Illinois.
He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1964.
Wilson taught at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (1965-1970).
He was an emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught from 1970 to 2002 when he retired.
He was commissioned by the 1979 International Contemporary Organ Music Festival at the Hartt School of Music for his organ work Expansions, which was premiered at the festival by Donald Sutherland.
Wilson's music is published by Gunmar Music (a division of G. Schirmer).
His music has been recorded on the Columbia, CRI, Desto, Turnabout, and New World labels.
According to Wilson himself, "The essence of Africanness consists of a way of doing something, not simply something that is done" (1991).
This motto is the basis of Wilson's work in the realm of ethnomusicology.
He is also known for establishing the TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts) program at Oberlin Conservatory, the first-ever conservatory program in electronic music.
Wilson was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Alma Grace Peoples Wilson, a seamstress, and Olly Woodrow Wilson, Sr., an insurance salesman and butler.
He also served as the chairman of that university's music department between 1993 and 1997.
He was commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony and New York Philharmonic.
Wilson died March 12, 2018, in Berkeley, California at the age of 80.
Olly Wilson contributed to the study of African and American music by defining heterogeneous sound ideals that involve common themes in traditional African music: such as use of aspects of sound (pitch, duration, timbre and volume), usage of physical body movement in music making, and introspection of listeners.
His heterogenous sound ideals are still used today to help identify different aspects of sounds in music.
