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William Walton's Viola Concerto puts the lie to the assumption that a composer must be able to play an instrument to truly understand it. Walton, the son of a choirmaster, was a singer first and never really mastered performance of any instrument.
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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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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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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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Five key recordings These are all vividly compelling traversals of Walton's symphonic masterpiece - if you can bear so much savage emotional intensity, I recommend them all. London Symphony.
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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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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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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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William Walton discusses his music and career from the documentary, In Their Own Words: 20th Century Composers.
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Sir William Walton, one of England's most prominent composers of the 20th century, made significant contributions to British heritage through his diverse and influential body of work. Born in Oldham, Lancashire, in 1902, Walton's musical journey began early as he showcased his talents as a singer and composer from a young age.
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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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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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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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William Turner Walton, the second of four children, was born on March 29, 1902, to a Lancashire choirmaster and singing teacher and his wife, also a singer.. In 1926 the second version of Façade was performed, with Walton's friend and fellow composer Constant Lambert replacing Sitwell as narrator and the accompaniments arranged more simply.
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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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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.