![]() ![]() He wrote in December 1928 that he was working hard on the piece, and in February 1929 that he had finished the second movement. He wrote the concerto while wintering in Amalfi, Italy, with his friends and patrons the Sitwells. ![]() After some preliminary discussion Walton agreed. ![]() Towards the end of 1928 the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham suggested that Walton should write a concerto for the violist Lionel Tertis, for whom composers including Vaughan Williams and Bax had written major works. His exuberant and harmonically edgy concert overture Portsmouth Point (1926) maintained his reputation as an enfant terrible. In 1929 William Walton was regarded as an avant-garde composer, best known for Façade (1923), which had been a succès de scandale at its premiere. ![]()
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