Abstract
Abstract Reticent as always, Walton wrote no letter in which he expressed his feelings about the death of Alice Wimborne. Work was his therapy. He resumed composition of the sonata Roy Douglas’s diary for 21 June 1948 records: ‘William is writing a new Violin Sonata.’ He also undertook a considerable revision of the score of Belshazzar’sFeast.In February 1948 Douglas had told Oxford University Press that there were over eighty errors in the full score. As a result, Walton went through it and in the process took out much of the percussion and drastically rescored the music between rehearsal cue numbers 62 and 65 and between 74 and 77 and also adjusted the scoring elsewhere. The first performance of the revised version was given on 8 March 1950, conducted by Sargent. Later, before the study score was published in 1957, Walton entirely rescored the last fourteen bars, extending them to eighteen, using full orchestra and adding the upper octaves instead of only the lower instruments.
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