This composer regularly wrote letters to critic Peter Heyworth, calling him his "tormentor in chief" and saying how disappointed he would be if he got "a kind word" from Heyworth's reviews.
This composer regularly wrote letters to critic Peter Heyworth, calling him his "tormentor in chief" and saying how disappointed he would be if he got "a kind word" from Heyworth's reviews. He was commissioned to write a work for Lionel Tertis, who later contritely apologized for initially rejecting it, as it premiered not with Tertis, but Paul Hindemith. This man wrote a critically acclaimed film score that begins with an overture at the "Globe Playhouse" accompanying a speech by the Chorus and features a passacaglia marking the "death of Falstaff." He composed an instrumental accompaniment for FaÃ§ade, a series of recitations of the works of Edith Sitwell. This composer's most famous work draws upon the book of Daniel and features such sections as "Babylon was a great city." FTP, name this English composer of the cantata Belshazzar's Feast.
This composer regularly wrote letters to critic Peter Heyworth, calling him his "tormentor in chief" and saying how disappointed he would be if he got "a kind word" from Heyworth's reviews.
Sir William Turner Walton