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Willard Franklin Warch (June 6, 1909 – October 12, 2002) was an American classical cellist and music theorist from Chicago. 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 1927–31 and a student at Oberlin College. In 1931, he graduated, having earned both the B.Mus. and M.Mus. degrees at Oberlin. From 1942–45, 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.

He died in Oberlin, Ohio in 2002, aged 93.

References

1. Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1932, 1938-2007
2. Cook County, Illinois, Birth Certificates Index, 1871-1922
3. Oberlin Conservatory Magazine 2003
4. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
5. Oberlin College Library - About the Conservatory Library

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• A picture of Warch with his cello in 1929

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