Song Album (Oxford Vocal Music)

ISBN 10: 0193437597 ISBN 13: 9780193437593

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 1991

Synopsis

This collection presents the best of Walton's music for voice and piano and provides singers with challenging and rewarding repertoire.

About this title

Product Description:

This collection presents the best of Walton's music for voice and piano.

About the Author:

Sir William Walton was born in Oldham, Lancashire in 1902, the son of a choirmaster and a singing-teacher. He became a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and then an undergraduate at the University. His first composition to attract attention was a piano quartet written at the age of sixteen. At Oxford he made the acquaintance of the Sitwells who gave him friendship, moral and financial support and in 1922 he collaborated with Edith in devising the entertainment Façade. Less than ten years later, Osbert prepared the text of another masterwork, Belshazzar's Feast. From 1922 to 1927 Walton began to spend an increasing amount of time abroad, notably in Switzerland and Italy. The war years were devoted mainly to writing film and ballet scores and he became established as amongst the greatest composers for the screen.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0193437597
• ISBN 13: 9780193437593
• Binding: Sheet music
• Number of pages: 96