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Sir William Turner Walton OM (29 March 1902 – 8 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.
Sir William Walton was an 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, the son of a choirmaster father and a vocalist mother, studied violin.
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From gritty, complex symphonies to popular film scores, the music of William Walton is hard to pin down - but enduringly attractive.
GenreDateTitleScoringOpera1947–1954soloists, chorus and orchestraOpera1967The Bear, An Extravaganzasoloists and small orchestraBallet1935The First ShootorchestraBallet1940orchestraThis is a list of compositions by William Walton sorted by genre, date of composition, title, and scoring. Apart from the "Battle in the Air" sequence, the score was dropped before the film was released, and replaced with one by Ron Goodwin .
GenreDateTitleScoringOpera1947–1954soloists, chorus and orchestraOpera1967The Bear, An Extravaganzasoloists and small orchestraBallet1935The First ShootorchestraBallet1940orchestraSep 4, 2010 · Crown Imperial is an orchestral march by the English composer William Walton. It was first performed at the coronation of King George VI in 1937, and substan...
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Sir William Walton, one of England's most prominent composers of the 20th century, made significant contributions to British heritage through his diverse and influential body of work.
In 1969 Sir William Walton opened the pages of the Daily Telegraph to discover that his music for Guy Hamilton’s World War II epic, Battle Of Britain, had been ditched.
