WILLIAM TURNER WALTON, English composer (1902-11983), William Walton free midi downloadd.

SIR WILLIAM TURNER WALTON
29^thMarch 1902 --- 8^thMarch 1983

Sir William Turner Walton (born 1902, Oldham, Lancashire, England and died 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.

Walton was the son of a choirmaster father and a vocalist mother, he studied violin and piano desultorily as a boy and also sang, with
somewhat better results, in his father's choir. He taught himself composition, although he received advice from both Ernest Ansermet
and Ferruccio Busoni. In 1912 he entered the University of Oxford, where he sang in the choir of Christ Church. He put in the requisite
four years of study but failed by one examination (Responsonions) to win a bachelor of music degree.

It was at Oxford he had met the Sitwell brothers Osbert and Sacheverell by whom he was virtually adopted, and he spent most of the
next decade traveling with them or living with them at Chelsea. During this period he composed Façade (1923) a set of pieces for
chamber ensemble, to accompany the Sitwells' sister Edith in a recitation of her poetry, as well as Sinfonia Concertante for piano and
orchestra (1928; revised 1943) and Portsmouth Point (1926), which established his reputation as an orchestral composer.

Walton was influenced by some of his older contemporaries, notably Edward Elgar, Igor Stravinsky, and Paul Hindemith. Hindemith
was soloist in the first performance of one of Walton's finest works, his Viola Concerto (1929). Walton also composed a number of
scores for motion pictures, including Major Barbara (1941), Henry V (1944), Hamlet (1947), and Richard III (1954). His vocal music
includes the oratorio Belshazzar's Feast (1931) and operas Troilus and Cressida (1954) and The Bear (one act 1967). The composer
received a knighthood in 1951.
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