Spitfire Prelude and Fugue

Solo organ
ISBN: 978-0-19-356831-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Sonstiges, Englisch, 16 Seiten, Format (B × H): 232 mm x 311 mm

Reihe: The Oxford Organ Library

for Solo organ
This virtuosic transcription will make a thrilling voluntary or recital piece. After a characteristic opening fanfare, a broad Elgarian theme takes centre-stage; the central section is a bustling fugue with whose material that theme is in the end climactically combined. The very skilful arrangement offers a brilliant distillation of Walton's scintillating orchestral textures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Walton, William

Winpenny, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassische Musik des 20./21. Jahrhunderts

Über Autor(innen)

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 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.