# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-walton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:20:40.627Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-walton"
name: "William Walton"
slug: "william-walton"
description: "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 marches Crown Imperial and Orb and Sceptre."
tagline: "English composer (1902–1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Walton_(1976).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1902-03-29"
deathDate: "1983-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump