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William Walton Catalogue

This revised, updated, and expanded edition of the definitive catalogue of works by Sir William Walton (1902-83) follows the completion of the William Walton Edition. A comprehensive source of musical and documentary information relevant to Walton's life and work, the catalogue features full details of composition dates, instrumentation, first performance, publication, the location of autograph manuscripts, critical comment, and significant recordings, as well as previously undiscovered pieces. Appended are a helpful bibliography for further reading and indexes including for works, authors of texts, first lines, and dedicatees.

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facsimiles xxv For perusal purposes only 2. An extract from the twenty-page short score (C4) of the choirboy Walton’s ambitious unfinished setting of Matthew Arnold’s poem ‘The Forsaken Merman’ for soprano and tenor soli, double female chorus, and orchestra, dated ‘Summer 1916’. Will somebody one day undertake the potentially fascinating task of orchestrating and performing this torso? Reproduced by kind permission of the Frederick R. Koch Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

xxvi facsimiles For perusal purposes only 3. Edith Sitwell revised her poem ‘Trams’ (1916) for her 1920 collection The Wooden Pegasus, and Walton set it to music for the first public performance of Façade (C12). This was given on 12 June 1923, when it constituted the thirteenth number. It was repeated on 17 April 1926, but thereafter was discarded from the Entertainment. Rediscovered only in 2003, this is its first publication. Reproduced by kind permission of The British Library Board, London.

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