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Malcolm Sargent
Malcolm Sargent
English conductor, organist and composer
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Arthur Bliss
Arthur Bliss
British composer
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John Veale
John Veale
English composer
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Edward Elgar
Edward Elgar
English composer
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
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Adrian Boult
Adrian Boult
English conductor
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Charles Groves
Charles Groves
British conductor
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John Barbirolli
John Barbirolli
British conductor and cellist
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Albert Coates
Albert Coates
British conductor
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Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
English composer, conductor, and pianist
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Hamilton Harty
Hamilton Harty
Irish composer, conductor, pianist and organist
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Arnold Bax
Arnold Bax
English composer and poet
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Malcolm Williamson
Malcolm Williamson
Australian composer
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Leeds Festival Chorus
Leeds Festival Chorus
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Edgar Bainton
Edgar Bainton
British composer
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London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London based symphony orchestra
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Oliver Knussen
Oliver Knussen
British composer and conductor
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James Loughran
James Loughran
British conductor
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Stephen Bryant
Stephen Bryant
English violinist
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Peter Racine Fricker
Peter Racine Fricker
English composer
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Hans Richter
Hans Richter
Austrian-Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor
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Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
German composer and orchestra director
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Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin
American violinist and conductor (1916–1999)
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Colin Davis
Colin Davis
British conductor
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Richard Hickox
Richard Hickox
English conductor
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Janet Baker
Janet Baker
Opera and concert singer
William Walton
English composer

William Walton

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English composer
Genres
Awards Received
Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Knight Bachelor
Nominated For
Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score
William Walton in 1937

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. 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. His earliest work of note was a collaboration with Edith Sitwell, Façade, which at first brought him notoriety as a modernist, but later became a popular ballet score.

In middle age, Walton left Britain and set up home with his young wife Susana on the Italian island of Ischia. By this time, he had ceased to be regarded as a modernist, and some of his compositions of the 1950s were criticised as old-fashioned. His only full-length opera, Troilus and Cressida, was among the works to be so labelled and has made little impact in opera houses. In his last years, his works came back into critical fashion; his later compositions, dismissed by critics at the time of their premieres, were revalued and regarded alongside his earlier works.

Walton was a slow worker, painstakingly perfectionist, and his complete body of work across his long career is not large. His most popular compositions continue to be frequently performed in the 21st century, and by 2010 almost all his works had been released on CD.