Mark Wessel (March 26, 1894 – May 9, 1973) was an American pianist and composer.
Wessel was born in Coldwater, Michigan, and graduated from Northwestern School of Music, now known as Bienen School of Music; he later taught piano and theory there.
When Wessel left Northwestern, he became a professor of piano and composition at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
He was also the recipient in 1930 of a Pulitzer Scholarship to further his education in Europe.
[1] In the 1938 contest of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society his choral-orchestral work The King of Babylon won honorable mention, while his former student David Van Vactor won the competition with his Symphony in D.[2][3] He died on May 9, 1973, in Orchard Lake, Oakland County, Michigan.