
William Turner Walton (Composer)
Born: 29th March 1902, Oldham, England
Died: 8th March 1983, Ischia, Italy
Nationality: English
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.
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.
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Popular Works: Walton
- A Litany 'Drop, drop slow tears' (5)
- A Shakespeare Suite from Richard III (5)
- A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table (4)
- As You Like It: Under the greenwood tree (4)
- Battle of Britain Suite (4)
- Belshazzar's Feast (8)
- Cello Concerto (4)
- Clown Argheb's Song (from Façade) (4)
- Coronation Te Deum (8)
- Crown Imperial (39)
- Dark Song (from Façade) (4)
- Façade - An Entertainment (6)
- Façade II (4)
- Façade Orchestral Suite No. 1 (5)
- Façade Orchestral Suite No. 2 (5)
- Façade: Polka (5)
- Gone Dry (from Façade) (4)
- Henry V - Suite (7)
- Henry V: Passacaglia "Death of Falstaff" (10)
- Introduction to the National Anthem (5)
- Medley for Brass Band (4)
- Orb and Sceptre (12)
- Popular Song from 'Façade' (10)
- Portsmouth Point Overture (5)
- Put off the serpent girdle (4)
- Scapino: A Comedy Overture (4)
- Serenade (from Façade) (4)
- Siesta (4)
- Sinfonia Concertante (5)
- Sonata for String Orchestra (6)
- Spitfire Prelude & Fugue (6)
- String Quartet in A Minor (4)
- Swiss Yodelling Song (4)
- Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor (4)
- The First Shoot (8)
- Touch her soft lips and part (from Henry V) (14)
- Tritons (4)
- Viola Concerto (4)
- Violin Concerto (4)
- What cheer? (4)