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"Sir William Turner Walton" Order of Merit/OM was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include Façade (entertainment)/Façade, the cantata Belshazzar's Feast (Walton)/Belshazzar's Feast, the Viola Concerto (Walton)/Viola Concerto and the Symphony No. 1 (Walton)/First Symphony.

Born in Oldham, Lancashire, the son of a musician, Walton was a chorister and then an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford. On leaving the university, he was taken up by the literary The Sitwells/Sitwell siblings, who provided him with a home and a cultural education. His earliest work of note was a collaboration with Edith Sitwell, Façade, which at first brought him notoriety as a Modernism (music)/modernist, but later became a popular ballet score.