Douglas E. Wagner

Douglas E. Wagner

Biography

Douglas E. Wagner, (b. 14 August 1952, Chicago, Ill.) is an internationally recognized composer and arranger. With 30 years as a high school music educator and administrator behind him, Doug now devotes all of his time and energy to writing, editing and their allied activities. He is an A.S.C.A.P. award-winning composer, an editor for a major publishing company, and has served several denominations as a church musician.

Doug as published more than 2,500 music titles since 1973, including works for choir (sacred and secular), concert band, orchestra, handbell ensemble, organ, piano, instrumental solo and voice. Fifteen million copies of his music have been sold to date.

Douglas's music has been performed in concert settings, on television and on radio broadcasts in the United States, as well as on concert programs in more than two dozen foreign countries.

Works for Winds

Adaptable Music

• You'll Be Back (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2015/2020)

All Wind Works

• American Salute (as arranger)
• And All the Bells on Earth Shall Ring
• Appalachian Tapestry (2009)
• Baba Yetu (as arranger) (2005/2015)
• Beetlejuice (as arranger) (1988/2015)
• Brother James' Air (as arranger) (1915/1995)
• Canticle (1996)
• Carols from the British Isles (as arranger) (2013)
• A Celtic Christmas
• Children's March (as arranger) (1919/2000)
• Christmas Bells Overture (2010)
• Christmas from the '50s (2009)
• A Classic Christmas
• Cole Porter Classics (as arranger) (2004)
• Colonial Song (as arranger) (1919/2014)
• The Dam Busters March (as arranger) (2004)
• Doctor Who (as arranger) (1963/2015)
• Ellan Vannin Suite
• Engines of Change (2015)
• Festivo (as arranger) (1968/2008
• From Sea to Shining Sea (as scorer; arr. Whitney) (1882/1963/2017))
• Glory! (2016)
• Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (as arranger) (1944/2006)
• Hymn for Those Who Serve (2015)
• I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' (as arranger)
• I'm Seventeen Come Sunday (as arranger) (1905-12/1999)
• Irish Suite: The Last Rose of Summer (as arranger) (1950/2010)
• Irish Suite: The Wearing of the Green (as arranger) (1947/2009)
• Japanese (as arranger) (2006)
• March for a Norwegian Penguin
• March On, America! (as arranger) (2014)
• Morris Dance Tunes (as arranger) (1910/2010)
• On a Tune of William Billings (2015)
• Over the Sea to Skye (as arranger) (2014)
• Promenade (as arranger) (1945/2017)
• A Quiet Music (2007)
• A Ralph Vaughan Williams Portrait (as arranger) (2018)
• Screamers! (as arranger) (2013)
• Selections from Leroy Anderson's "Irish Suite" (as arranger) (2011)
• Slane (as arranger) (1994)
• Three Movements from "Water Music" (as arranger) (1715/2014)
• Two Variants on Dives and Lazarus (2014)
• U.S. Field Artillery March (as arranger)
• A Vaughan Williams Christmas (as arranger) (1999)
• We Will Remember Them (2021)
• Windforce (2016)
• You'll Be Back (as arranger) (2015/2020)
• You'll Be Back (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2015/2020)

Resources

• Douglas Wagner website Accessed 10 February 2021