Wintter Haynes Watts (Cincinnati, Ohio, March 14, 1884 – Brooklyn, New York, November 1, 1962) was an American composer of art songs.
Watts was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and his early studies were in painting, architecture, voice, and organ.
[1] He later studied at The Academy of Musical Art in New York City and in Florence, Italy.
He won the Morris Loeb Prize in 1919 for his symphony Young Blood and the Prix de Rome in 1923.
The songs were highly esteemed in their day, and Upton praised them for their distinctly 'American' sound.