Compositor
William Walton
William Turner Walton OM (Oldham, Lancashire, Inglaterra, 29 de Março de 1902 — Ischia, Itália, 8 de Março de 1983) foi um compositor e maestro, inglês que criou bandas sonoras clássicas. Em 1944, inicia a primeira colaboração com o actor e cineasta Laurence Olivier no filme: Henrique V (Henry V) (1944), Hamlet (Hamlet) (1948), Ricardo III (Richard III) (1955) e As Três Irmãs (Three Sisters) (1970). Seu estilo foi influenciado pelas obras de Stravinsky e Prokofiev, bem como música de jazz, e é caracterizada pela vitalidade rítmica. Sua produção inclui obras orquestrais e coral, música de câmara e música cerimonial, bem como a notável produção cinematográfica. Suas primeiras obras, especialmente Edith Sitwell Façade trouxe notoriedade como um modernista mas foi com a orquestra sinfônica e obras como Belshazzar's Feast que ganhou reconhecimento internacional.
Período: 20th Century
Vida: 1902–1983
Obras
Obras em destaque
Symphony no. 1 in B flat minor
Violin Concerto
Belshazzar's Feast, for baritone, double chorus and orchestra
Façade, for reciter and ensemble
Viola Concerto
2 Pieces for Violin and Piano
2 Songs for Tenor and Piano
3 Pieces for Organ
4 Christmas Carols, for chorus
5 Bagatelles, for guitar
A Litany: Drop, drop, slow tears
A Queen's Fanfare, for brass
A Shavian Sequence, suite for orchestra
A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table, song cycle for soprano
Anniversary Fanfare, for brass
Anon in Love, song cycle for tenor and guitar
Antiphon, for chorus and organ
As You Like It
Film score
Cantico del sole
Capriccio Burlesco
Cello Concerto
Christopher Columbus, radio music for speakers, soloists, chorus, guitar and orchestra
Coronation Te Deum, for soloists, chorus, organ and orchestra
Crown Imperial
Duets for Children, for piano 4-hands
Escape Me Never, suite from the film score
Facade for Reciter and Orchestra
Façade Suite no. 1
Façade Suite no. 2
Façade Suite, for chamber ensemble
Façade no. 2, for reciter and ensemble
Gloria, for alto, tenor, bass, double chorus and orchestra
Hamlet
Film score
Hamlet: A Shakespeare Scenario, arranged for speaker and orchestra
Henry V
Film score
Henry V: Suite for Chorus and Orchestra
Improvisations on an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten
In Honour of the City of London, for double chorus and orchestra
Johannesburg Festival Overture
Jubilate Deo, for double chorus and organ
King Herod and the Cock
Macbeth
Incidental music
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, for chorus and organ
Major Barbara
Film score
March: A History of the English-speaking Peoples, incidental music for television
Missa Brevis, for double chorus and organ
Music for Children, for orchestra
Orb and Scepter
Partita
Passacaglia, for cello solo
Piano Quartet in D minor
Portsmouth Point
Prelude for orchestra
Prologo e Fantasia, for orchestra
Scapino
Set me as a seal upon thine heart
Siesta, for small orchestra
Sinfonia concertante, for orchestra with piano obbligato
String Quartet no. 1
String Quartet no. 2 in A minor
Comunidade
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