Wilhelm Mayer (10 June 1831 – 22 January 1898) was an Austro-Bohemian composer who published his works under the name W. A. Rémy.
[6] His overture to Eugène Sue's drama Jean Cavalier was written when he was 17, but his parents required him to enter the legal profession.
[1] During his eight-year stay in that post, he introduced a number of his own compositions, such as the overture Sardanapalus, the symphonic poem Helena, and a Symphony in F major.
[1][8] For him, the first four preludes and fugues from Book I of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier represented water, fire, earth and air respectively, and he conceived many others in a poetical light.
[7] He taught Luigi Cherubini's methods for counterpoint, and used Hector Berlioz's orchestral treatise.
[7] Busoni wrote a "Fugue in F major on a theme of W. A. Rémy" (BV 154), and dedicated his Praeludium (Basso ostinato) und Fuge (Doppelfuge zum Choral) Op.