William Walton
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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.
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Walton in 1976
Christ Church, Oxford, where Walton was a chorister and then an undergraduate
Walton with the Sitwells: left to right Osbert, Edith, Sacheverell, Walton, and, with the Façade megaphone, Neil Porter of the Old Vic.
Portsmouth Point by Thomas Rowlandson inspired Walton's overture of the same name.
Alice Wimborne, Walton's partner from 1934 to 1948, photographed in 1928 by Cecil Beaton
Jascha Heifetz commissioned Walton's Violin Concerto.
The Manor House, Ashby St Ledgers, Walton's main base during the Second World War
The view from the Waltons' house on IschiaListen
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Julian BreamAlso won Walter Willson Cobbett Medal
Robert H. GrubbsAlso won Benjamin Franklin Medal
Simon RattleAlso won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Andrés SegoviaAlso won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Robert S. Langer, Jr.Also won Benjamin Franklin Medal
Christopher HogwoodAlso won Walter Willson Cobbett MedalAbout this person
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.
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Country
United KingdomCategory
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1902 to 1983 · aged 80
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