Spitfire Prelude and Fugue is an orchestral composition by William Walton, arranged and extracted in 1942 from music he had written for the motion picture...

A prelude and fugue is a musical form generally consisting of two movements in the same key for solo keyboard. In classical music, the combination of...

Petersburg, Russia The Spitfire Band, a Canadian big band Spitfire Prelude and Fugue, an orchestral composition by William Walton, arranged and extracted from...

20 August 1942. Walton was content to have the "Spitfire Prelude and Fugue" from the score published and performed in concert. He conducted the Liverpool...

contributions to the genre. Between 1934 and 1969 he wrote the music for 13 films. He arranged the Spitfire Prelude and Fugue from his own score for The First...

Troilus and Cressida is the first of the two operas by William Walton, and was premiered in 1954. The libretto was by Christopher Hassall, his own first...

October 1931, with the baritone Dennis Noble, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Leeds Festival Chorus, conducted by Malcolm Sargent. The work has remained...

who later incorporated major cues into a concert work known as Spitfire Prelude and Fugue. Geoffrey Crisp is a fictional character that is an amalgam of...

compositions by William Walton sorted by genre, date of composition, title, and scoring. William Walton: film music Lloyd, Stephen (2001). William Walton:...

and the coronation of King Charles III in 2023. It has been recorded in its original orchestral form and in arrangements for organ, military band and...

Archived from the original on 11 December 2021 – via YouTube. Spitfire Prelude and Fugue by William Walton. Archived from the original on 11 December 2021...

Tropical and Mediterranean plants were planted and some have now reached considerable proportions. The gardens include views over the city and harbour...

Orb and Sceptre is a march for orchestra written by William Walton for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London, on 2 June 1953...

exceptions. In 1942 he had extracted the Spitfire Prelude and Fugue from his score for The First of the Few, and from Henry V he allowed two self-contained...

to be played "quickly, with animation and ardour"; the first is sharply energetic, and the second a lively fugue, with a more relaxed central section....

Concerto (1957) is the third and last of the composer's concertos for string instruments, following his Viola Concerto (1929) and Violin Concerto (1939). It...

recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton. The poems and the music exist in several versions. Sitwell began to publish some of the...

Concerto by William Walton was written in 1938–39 and dedicated to Jascha Heifetz, who commissioned the work and performed it at its premiere on 7 December 1939...

Walton was written in 1929 and first performed at the Queen's Hall, London on 3 October of that year by Paul Hindemith as soloist and the composer conducting...

Crown Imperial, Orb and Sceptre, and the Spitfire Prelude. The following information is according to Oxford University Press: Prelude 5 minutes Call Sign...

of 1895, steps were taken to create a male chorus, and the organization was officially formed and organized on September 23, 1895. Emil Oberhoffer was...

of the British composer Sir William Walton (1902–1983). She was a writer and the creator of the gardens of La Mortella on the island of Ischia, Italy...

publication as an "Extravaganza in One Act". The libretto was written by Paul Dehn and Walton, based on the play of the same title by Anton Chekhov (which is also...

his Symphony No. 2 between 1957 and 1960. It was commissioned in November 1955 by the Liverpool Philharmonic Society and was originally intended to commemorate...

Symphony Orchestra (LSO), and as soloists Yehudi Menuhin, Andrés Segovia and Pierre Fournier and as conductors Sir Malcolm Sargent and Guido Cantelli. Among...

creators, in 1929. Over the next two decades Sitwell and Walton added numbers to the entertainment and removed others. A definitive edition was published...

orchestrator in 1940. The movements were selected from Bach's cantatas and chorale preludes and orchestrated from piano transcriptions. Designer Rex Whistler was...

premiered in 1922, and wrote the A minor quartet between 1944 and 1947. It was first given in a BBC radio broadcast on 4 May 1947 and received its first...

tenor and guitar, setting anonymous poems from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The cycle was commissioned by the tenor Peter Pears and the guitarist...

Walton and Edith Sitwell. The ballet was first given by the Camargo Society at the Cambridge Theatre, on 26 April 1931. It has been regularly revived and restaged...