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William Baines (26 March 1899 - 6 November 1922) was an English composer and pianist.

Biography
William Baines was born at 11 Shepstye Road, in Horbury, near Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in the north of England. He was the son of George William Baines, a chapel organist, and Mary Alice Townsend, both Primitive Methodists. His early musical experiences were gained from sitting next to his father in the organ loft. In 1903 George Baines began to run a music shop in Horbury, where the phonograph was ever popular. William began piano studies under his father's tutelage until the age of 11, when he began studies at the Yorkshire Training College of Music (Leeds) under Albert Jowett. His studies there included harmony and counterpoint, in addition to piano and this soon led to his earliest compositions (from the age of 12), beginning with simple chants and hymn tunes.

In 1913 the Baines family moved to Cleckheaton, as George Baines had a position as cinema organist at the Picture Palace.

Orchestral
Symphony in C Minor for large orchestra (1917)

Island of the Fay (1919)

Prelude to a Doll's Ballet for string orchestra (1920)

Poem for piano and orchestra (1921)

Thoughtdrift (1921)

Chamber
Aubade for string quartet (1917)

String Quartet in E Major (1917-18)

Piano Trio (1918)

Marionettes diversion for violin and piano (1919)

Violin Sonata in G for violin and piano (1917-19)

Dream Temple for violin and piano (1920)

Rhapsody in F# Minor for string quartet (1920)

Two Fragments for string quartet (Quietude; At the Time of Falling Leaves) (1920-21)

Andante for string quartet (1922)

Piano
Piano Sonata No 2 in A Minor (1917)

Four Sketches (Chimes; Only a few wooden soldiers; Dreaming; Imps) (1917-18)

Paradise Gardens (1919)

Seven Preludes (1919)

Coloured Leaves (Prelude; Valse; Still Day; Purple Heights) (1919-20)

Four Poems (Poem-Fragment; Elves; Poem-Nocturne; Appassionata) (1919-21)

Three Concert Studies (Exaltation; The Naiad; Radiance) (1919-20)

Milestones (Ave! Imperator; Angelus; Milestones - a walking tune) (1920)

Silverpoints (Labyrinth [A Deep Sea Cave]; Water-Pearls; The Burning Joss-Stick; Floralia) (1920-21)

Tides (The Lone Wreck; Goodnight to Flamboro') (1920-21)

Sonata for Piano in F# Minor (Poem of Youth) (1921)

Prelude and Seven Diversions for two pianos (1921)

Concert Study in C Minor (1921)

Twilight Pieces (Twilight Woods - a fragment; Quietude; A Pause of Thought) (1921)

A Last Sheaf (Glancing Sunlight; The Island of the Fay; Etude in F# Minor; A Pastoral) (1921-22)

Idyll (Nocturne) (1922) Eight Preludes (Set 2) (Prelude in G; Ebbing Tide; Shade-Imagery; Etude in C; Wind Sprites; A Fairy Tale; Lullaby; Eroica) (1921-22)

Pictures of Light (Drift-Light; Bursting Flames; Pool-Lights) (1920-22)

Vocal
Five Songs for voice and piano (Fountains; Fern Song; By the Sea; A Lyric; Morning) (1919)