William Walton
Sir William Turner Walton (29 March 19028 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 Oldham, Lancashire, the son of a 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.
In middle age, Walton left England and set up home with his young wife Susana on the Italian island of Ischia. By this time, he had ceased to be regarded as a modernist, and some of his compositions of the 1950s were criticised as old-fashioned. His only full-length opera, ''Troilus and Cressida'', was among the works to be so labelled and has made little impact in opera houses. In his last years, his works came back into critical fashion; his later compositions, dismissed by critics at the time of their premieres, were revalued and regarded alongside his earlier works.
Walton was a slow worker, painstakingly perfectionist, and his complete body of work across his long career is not large. His most popular compositions continue to be frequently performed in the 21st century, and by 2010 almost all his works had been released on CD. Provided by Wikipedia
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A memoir addressed to proprietors of mountain and other waste lands, and agriculturists of the United Kingdom, on the naturalization of the alpaca : recommended by the Natural Hist... by Walton, William, 1784-1857
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Present state of the Spanish colonies : including a particular report of Hispañola, or the Spanish part of Santo Domingo : with a general survey of the settlements on the south con... by Walton, William, 1784-1857
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Present state of the Spanish colonies : including a particular report of Hispañola, or the Spanish part of Santo Domingo. by Walton, William, 1784-1857
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Present state of the Spanish colonies : including a particular report of Hispañola, or the Spanish part of Santo Domingo. by Walton, William, 1784-1857
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An historical and descriptive account of the four species of Peruvian sheep, called carneros de la tierra : to which are added, particulars respecting the domestication of the two... by Walton, William, 1784-1857
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Carta primeira dirigida ao conde Grey, primeiro ministro da Grã-Bretanha : a'cerca do estado das relações politicas e commerciaes entre Portugal e aquelle paiz / by Walton, William, 1784-1857
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The facilities and advantages of navigating the Ebro by steam, from the sea nearly as far up as Logroño : and also of making that river the basis of a line of communication, (partl... by Walton, William, 1784-1857
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A letter, addressed to the Right Honourable Earl Grey, &c. &c. &c : on the state of our political & commercial relations with Portugal / by Walton, William, 1784-1857
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State of the Philippine Islands being an historical, statistical and descriptive account of that interesting portion of the Indian Archipelago / by Comyn, Tomás de
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Memoir addressed to the General, Constituent and Legislative Assembly of the empire of Brazil on slavery! / translated from the Portuguese by William Walton. by Bonifácio, José, 1763-1838
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