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Symphony no. 1 / edited by David Lloyd-Jones.

By: Walton, William, 1902-1983.
Contributor(s): Lloyd-Jones, David.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Walton, William, Works: v. 9.Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, Music Dept., c1998Description: 1 score (xvi, 212 p., [3] p. of plates) : facsims. ; 33 cm.ISBN: 0193684187.Subject(s): Symphonies -- ScoresDDC classification: SC/1249
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A newly-edited, completely re-engraved and definitive text for one of the greatest British works of the twentieth century.

Edition chiefly based on the 1968 corrected ed. of the score, the individual orchestral parts containing the composer's 1951 amendments, and the autograph.

Editorial, historical and critical notes in English.

Duration: ca. 43:00.

Includes bibliographical references.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

David Lloyd-Jones was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and made his professional conducting debut in 1961 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He worked briefly as a répétiteur at the Royal Opera House before joining the New Opera Company, where he worked from 1961 to 1964. In 1972 he was appointed Assistant Music Director at Sadlers Wells Opera (now English National Opera), where he conducted a wide repertory which included the first British staging of War and Peace by Sergei Prokofiev. Lloyd-Jones became the first Music Director of Opera North in 1977, where he conducted over fifty productions. He stepped down from the position of Music Director in 1990. Sir William Walton was born in Oldham, Lancashire in 1902, the son of a choirmaster and a singing-teacher. He became a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and then an undergraduate at the University. His first composition to attract attention was a piano quartet written at the age of sixteen. At Oxford he made the acquaintance of the Sitwells who gave him friendship, moral and financial support and in 1922 he collaborated with Edith in devising the entertainment Belshazzar's Feast. From 1922 to 1927 Walton began to spend an increasing amount of time abroad, notably in Switzerland and Italy. The war years were devoted mainly to writing film and ballet scores and he became established as amongst the greatest composers for the screen.