Guion, David (Wendell Fentress)
(1892–1981)
Guion, David (Wendell Fentress). Ballinger, Texas, 15 December 1892 (not 1895) – Dallas, Texas, 17 October 1981 Guion was of French Huguenot descent. He studied in Texas and Illinois before going to Vienna in 1911, where he was a piano pupil of Leopold Godowsky for three years. As a composer he was almost entirely self-taught. On his return to America in 1914 he taught in New York, at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, and at the Chicago Musical College. From 1920 he devoted his time…