Peter J. Wilhousky (Ukrainian: Пітер (Петро) Вільховський; 13 July 1902 – 4 January 1978) was an American composer, educator, and choral conductor of Rusyn or Ukrainian ethnic extraction. During his childhood he was part of New York's Rusyn Cathedral Boys Choir and gave a performance at the White House to President Woodrow Wilson. He was featured on several broadcasts of classical music with Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra, including the historic 1947 broadcast of Verdi's opera Otello. In 1936, he wrote the popular Christmas carol "Carol of the Bells"; a song with English lyrics to the popular composition by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych originally known as "Shchedryk". His arrangement of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" for chorus, band, and orchestra is probably the most famous arrangement of the hymn before the 1940s in the United States.
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Mykola Leontovych
Composer, conductor, and teacher
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John Rutter
British composer, conductor and arranger
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David Willcocks
British choral conductor, organist and composer
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Choir of King's College, Cambridge
choir
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Gregory Rose
British composer and music director
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Stephen Cleobury
English organist and conductor
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Alice Parker
American composer and conductor
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Granville Bantock
British composer and conductor
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Choir of St John's College, Cambridge
collegiate choir
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Robert Shaw
American conductor, born 1916
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Nicholas Maw
British composer
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Carl Rütti
Swiss composer
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Peter Dickinson
British composer