William Walton: Behind the Façade

by Susana Walton

Book Overview

The acclaimed English composer William Walton--enfant terrible of English music in the 1920s and '30s, composer of Fa ade, Belshazzar's Feast, and a host of other brilliant works--lived a long and accomplished life. Admitted as a nine-year-old Lancashire schoolboy to Christ Church Choir School in Oxford, he was discovered by Sacheverell Sitwell as an undergraduate at Christ Church, adopted by all three Sitwells, and early on discovered a publisher...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0193151561
• ISBN13: 9780193151567
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"