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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 115. Chapters: Peter Gabriel, Ron Goodwin, Michael Nyman, William Walton, Clint Mansell, Mick Taylor, John Barry, Jonathan Goldstein, Ronnie Wood, Carroll Coates, Malcolm Arnold, Johnny Douglas, William Goodchild, Harry Gregson-Williams, George Fenton, Anne Dudley, John Powell, John Ireland, Tristram Cary, Graham Fitkin, Simon May, Simon Boswell, David Arnold, Murray Gold, Clifford Grey, Barry Adamson, Stanley Black, Atticus Ross, Howard Blake, Richard Harvey, Benson Taylor, Edwin Astley, Amin Bhatia, Benjamin Frankel, Rachel Portman, Dennis Berry, Jamie Robertson, Richard Rodney Bennett, Angela Morley, Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, Alexander Rudd, William Alwyn, Monty Norman, Simon Webb, Dan Jones, Andrew Hewitt, Timothy Williams, John Addison, Eric Coates, Paul Farrer, Jocelyn Pook, Chaz Jankel, Clifton Parker, Oliver Wallace, Roy Budd, Basil Kirchin, Anthony Collins, Henry Pryce Jackman, Pete Thomas, Ken Howard, Steve Hillier, John Murphy, Simon Dobson, Richard Addinsell, Nicholas Hooper, Laurie Johnson, Vivian Kubrick, Alan Gill, John Scott, Edward Shearmur, Neil Richardson, Eric Rogers, Ilan Eshkeri, James Bernard, Dave Hewson, Andy Roberts, Colin Towns, Stanley Myers, Patrick Gowers, John Wooldridge, Mark Slater, Ian Habgood, Christopher Gunning, Doreen Carwithen, Len Arran, Debbie Wiseman, Louis Levy, David Julyan, Richard Hartley, Pierre Yves Lenik, Stuart A. Staples, Nick Glennie-Smith, Adolph Deutsch, Adrian Foley, 8th Baron Foley, Leonard Salzedo, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Leighton Lucas, Rob Lord, Derek Wadsworth, Cyril J. Mockridge, J. Peter Robinson, Julian Nott, Reg Owen, Warren Bennett, Rolfe Kent, Daniel Giorgetti, David Buckley, Brian Fahey, Gavin Greenaway, Albert Elms, Halli Cauthery, Gary Yershon, Stephen Barton, Samuel Sim, Alastair King, Paul Ferris, Stephen Warbeck, Paul Lewis, David Lindup, Hubert Bath, Charlie Mole, James Tomalin. Excerpt: 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 - An Entertainment, the cantata Belshazzar's Feast and his First Symphony. Born in 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. Other early works that made his name were a Viola Concerto and Belshazzar's Feast. In middle age, Walton left Britain and set up home with his young wife 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, who was largely self-taught as a composer, was a slow worker, painstakingly perfectionist, and his complete body of work across his long career is not large. His most popular composi...

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