ISBN10: 0198162359, ISBN13: 9780198162353, [publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, Oxford] Softcover Almost two decades after his death Walton's reputation is higher than ever - many of his masterworks remain firm favourites in the concert repertoire, notably his eloquent concertos for violin, viola and cello, his dramatic cantata Belshazzar's Feast, his vivid film scores (such as Henry V), his powerful First Symphony (the creative outcome of a tempestuous love affair) and the sparkling entertainment Facade, a brilliant divertissement based on Edith Sitwell's poems and composed before he was twenty. Born in the cotton town of Oldham, young Billie's life was transformed when he won a boy chorister's scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford. He soon lost his Lancashire accent but never his innate canniness. His remarkable creative gifts were spotted early both by Hubert Parry (of "Jerusalem" fame) and the intellectually adventurous circle surrounding the Sitwell family, who persuaded him, since he was determined not to return to the narrow confines of life in Oldham, that he should quit Oxford without a degree to live with them in Jazz-Age London and earn his living purely as a composer. He stuck to music but it made him only a pittance, however, and he became a self-acknowledged scrounger, lodging with the Sitwells for over ten years. His evident genius and his romantic good looks saw him taken up by rich admirers such as the ...

Contents: Introduction -- 1. The Oldham Childhood 1902 -- 1912 -- 2. 'A Superior Education' Oxford 1912 -- 1920 -- 3. The Artful Lodger London 1920 -- 1929 -- 4. A Decade of Masterpieces 1929 -- 1939 -- 5. Public Service & Private Grief 1939 -- 1948 -- 6. Marriage & Exile 1948 -- 1955 -- 7. The Making of La Mortella 1956 -- 1971 -- 8. The Grand Old Man 1972 -- 1983 -- Index. viii, 182 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm. First edition, first printing. Black cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging. Date: 2002. Oxford University Press ISBN 0198162359 9780198162353 [GB]

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