Two String Quartets

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-351881-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 104 Seiten, Format (B × H): 247 mm x 190 mm, Gewicht: 240 g

A study score of Walton's String Quartet (1922) and String Quartet in A minor, off-printed from the William Walton Edition Chamber Music volume.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walton, William

Macdonald, Hugh

Weitere Mitwirkende

Walton, William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassische Musik des 20./21. Jahrhunderts
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Kammermusik & Ensembles

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 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.