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Sir William Walton, (born March 29, 1902, Oldham, Lancashire, Eng.—died March 8, 1983, Ischia, Italy), English composer especially known for his orchestral music. His early work made him one of England's most important composers between the time of Vaughan Williams and that of Benjamin Britten.
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Sir William Turner Walton was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include Façade, the cantata Belshazzar's Feast, the Viola Concerto, the First Symphony, and the British coronation anthems Crown Imperial and Orb and Sceptre.
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Sir William Turner Walton OM (29 March 1902 - 8 March 1983) was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera.
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The Symphony No. 1 in B ♭ minor is one of two symphonies by the English composer William Walton. The composer had difficulty in completing the work, and its first public performance was given without the finale, in 1934. The complete four-movement work was premiered the following year. The work shows the influence of Sibelius, particularly in.
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This is a list of compositions by William Walton sorted by genre, date of composition, title, and scoring. Genre. Date. Scoring. 1947-1954. Troilus and Cressida. soloists, chorus and orchestra. in 3 acts; libretto by Christopher Hassall after Geoffrey Chaucer; revised 1963 and 1976. Opera.
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William Walton: romantic modernist - Classical Music From gritty, complex symphonies to popular film scores, the music of William Walton is hard to pin down - but enduringly attractive From gritty, complex symphonies to popular film scores, the music of William Walton is hard to pin down - but enduringly attractive
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Composer of the Week; Discovering Music; Composers A to Z; Main content.. Donald Macleod explores the many sides to William Walton's life and music. Duration: 1:02:57. Walton:.
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William Walton composed music for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and King George VI, pieces of pomp and circumstance. But Walton grew up far from Buckingham Palace and the world of the.
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The Viola Concerto In 1929 Walton completed his Viola Concerto, a masterpiece in which Walton emerged as a composer of true genius. If influences of Walton's older contemporaries, such as Prokofiev or Ravel, can be heard, these are very faint echoes.
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The Violin Concerto by William Walton was written in 1938-39 and dedicated to Jascha Heifetz,. The British premiere, delayed by the Second World War, was given on 1 November 1941, with Henry Holst as soloist and the composer conducting. Walton later reorchestrated the concerto; the revised version was premiered in 1944..
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Sir William Turner Walton OM (29 March 1902 - 8 March 1983) was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include Façade, the cantata Belshazzar's Feast, the Viola Concerto, the First Symphony, and the British coronation anthems.
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William Walton discusses his music and career from the documentary, In Their Own Words: 20th Century Composers.
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Sir William Walton (1902-1983), a British composer and conductor, was best known for his works Façade: Suites for Orchestra, (1926) a jazz-influenced orchestral work based on the poems of Edith Sitwell and the oratorio Belshazzar's Feast (1931). Among the works digitzed by the Beinecke Library are S ymphony, no. 2 (score and first movement.
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Discover Music Composers Store Walton William Walton And The Battle Of Britain In 1969 Sir William Walton opened the pages of the Daily Telegraph to discover that his music for Guy Hamilton's World War II epic, Battle Of Britain, had been ditched.
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Biography William Walton was born in Oldham, Lancashire in 1902, the son of a choirmaster and a singing teacher. He became a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and then an undergraduate at the University.
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44100Hz. Total time. 70:41. Rarely appearing together on disc, William Walton's two symphonies are separated by some 25 years. The First Symphony was composed after his dazzling early success, beginning with Façade and culminating in two scores written before Walton reached the age of thirty: the Viola Concerto and the oratorio Belshazzar's Feast.