William Duncombe (ca.
1736-1738 – 30 November 1818, or 1819)[1] was an English composer.
[2] He is mainly known by a few small piano pieces (especially a Sonatina in C Major and the Fanfare or Fanfare Minuet) that are still reprinted in pedagogical collections.
[3] They are probably excerpts of the Progressive lessons for the harpsichord and piano forte, published in 1778 (or 1785).
Duncombe is frequently confused with the writer William Duncombe (1690 – 1769).