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Composer of the Week - William Walton (1902-1983) - Ischian Labourer

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Critical failure was something Walton had long foreseen: after the war came his most difficult years as a composer, although this was tempered by his blissful self-imposed exile, with his new wife, on the Italian island of Ischia.