Who was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school, William Walton or Carl Maria von Weber?
William Walton Sir William Turner Walton, OM (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include "Façade", the cantata "Belshazzar's Feast", the Viola Concerto and the First Symphony.
Charles Hamm Charles Hamm (April 21, 1925 – October 16, 2011) was an American musicologist, writer on music, composer, and music educator. He is credited with being the first music historian to seriously study and write about American popular music. He also was one of the founders of the "International Association for the Study of Popular Music" (IASPM).