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'''William''' Turner '''Walton''' (later Sir) (1902-1983) was an [[English]] [[composer]]. As a young man he was taken under the wing of the Sitwell family, supremely influential in the “artistic community at that time. He made his name with “''Façade''”, a sharp, witty and jazzy musical parody to nonsense verses by Edith Sitwell taking off the café and salon “scenes” of the 1920s. It is still performed/recorded in either complete or as a [[suite]] today.
'''William''' Turner '''Walton''' (later Sir) (1902-1983) was an [[English]] [[composer]]. As a young man he was taken under the wing of the Sitwell family, supremely influential in the “artistic community at that time. He made his name with “''Façade''”, a sharp, witty and jazzy musical parody to nonsense verses by Edith Sitwell taking off the café and salon “scenes” of the 1920s. It is still performed/recorded in either complete or as a [[suite]] today.
In much of his music, notwithstanding its some time savagery, there is a lyricism that, although making it part of the European romantic tradition, is firmly and obviously part of the 20th century and distinctively his own. He lived a long life, and, although spending his later years on the island of Ischia, [[Italy]], he became the grand old man of English music. In his obituary in the Musical Times, Christopher Palmer wrote that “''one of the longest and most glorious epochs in English music has come to an end''.”
In much of his music, notwithstanding its some time savagery, there is a lyricism that, although making it part of the European romantic tradition, is firmly and obviously part of the 20th century and distinctively his own. He lived a long life, and, although spending his later years on the island of Ischia, [[Italy]], he became the grand old man of English music. In his obituary in the Musical Times, Christopher Palmer wrote that “''one of the longest and most glorious epochs in English music has come to an end''.”
References: the factual bits, when necessary, were sourced from "Groves" and the "Oxford Companion". Many of the descriptions of this man's music are my own; as in "BEST OF THE PUBLIC".
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