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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 111
Top works
- The Army and Navy of the United States
- The whole prose romances of François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
- Belshazzar's Feast for Mixed Choir, Baritone Solo and Orchestra
- Facade Entertainments
- William Walton Edition Complete Set
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1902-03-29
- Active to
- 1983-03-08
Discography
- Belshazzar's Feast
- Henry V: Scenes from the film1947
- Twentieth Century Church Music1963
- Violin Concertos1965
- Symphony no. 1 (1935)1967
- Belshazzar’s Feast / Improvisations on an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten1972
- Walton: Violin Concerto / Stravinsky: Violin Concerto1973
- Walton: Symphony no. 2 / Portsmouth Point & Scapino Overtures / Lambert: The Rio Grande1974
- Music for Organ and Brass Band1983
- Symphony no. 1 in B‐flat minor1984
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- 203,790
- Total plays
- 857,438
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Sir William Turner Walton, OM (29th March 1902–8th March 1983) was an English composer and conductor. His style was influenced by the works of Stravinsky, Sibelius and jazz, and is characterised by rhythmic vitality, bittersweet harmony, sweeping Romantic melody, and brilliant orchestration. His output includes orchestral and choral works, chamber music ,and ceremonial music, as well as notable film scores. His earliest works, especially Edith Sitwell's Façade <a href="https://www.last.fm/music
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Encyclopedic overview
Walton in 1976 Sir William Turner Walton (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 marches Crown Imperial and Orb and Sceptre.
Born in Lancashire, the son of a classical musician, Walton was a chorister and then an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford. On leaving the university, he was taken up by the literary Sitwell siblings, who provided him with a home and a cultural education. His earliest work of note was a collaboration with Edith Sitwell, Façade, which at first brought him notoriety as a modernist, but later became a popular ballet score.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “William Walton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.