William L Gillock (July 1, 1917 – September 7, 1993) was an American music educator noted for his many pedagogical piano compositions.
[4] Gillock received multiple honours from the National Federation of Music Clubs, and his teaching pieces gained widespread popularity beyond the US, especially in Japan and Germany.
[5] Gillock wrote over 300 pieces of pedagogical piano music, brief works with engaging titles and in many different historic and geographic styles.
[6] They are still widely available in modern editions, and regularly included in collections of graded pieces issued by the music examination boards.
[9] Well-known individual short pieces, mostly for beginning and intermediate players, include Aeolian Harp, Autumn is Here, Carnival in Rio (originally for two pianos), the impressionistic Fountain in the Rain (1960, said to have been his best-selling composition),[2] Goldfish (1964), Happy Holiday, Holiday in Spain, New Orleans Nightfall, On a Paris Boulevard, and The Prowling Pussy Cat.