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Vol. 86 July 18, 2026 No. 19

W. Vincent Wallace

Irish

composer committee member

Biography

W. Vincent Wallace, the Irish composer, was at the time a resident of New York. He is named as one of the distinguished members of the New York Mechanics' Institute exhibition committee of 1853 that awarded a gold medal to a Hallet, Davis & Company grand piano, whose points of excellence, the text says, elicited warm commendation from the judges.

Highlights

  • Irish composer, then a resident of New York
  • Served alongside Henry C. Watson on the 1853 Mechanics' Institute committee awarding Hallet, Davis & Company's gold medal

Source

Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), p. 170.

Public domain.

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