Chris Walton

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Chris Walton (born Christopher Robert Walton on July 6, 1963 in Billingham , England ) is a British music historian who has made a name for himself with his work on Swiss music history.

Life

Walton studied musicology at Gonville and Caius College , Cambridge and received his PhD from Christ Church College , Oxford. He was a federal scholarship holder at the University of Zurich and a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Munich .

From 1990 to 2001 Walton was head of the music department of the Zurich Central Library . 1998–2000 he was a lecturer for music history at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich , 2001–2008 professor for music history at the University of Pretoria . From 2008 to 2011 he was administrative director of the Sinfonie Orchester Biel , since 2011 he has been a lecturer in music history at the Basel University of Music, since 2015 also a research assistant at the Bern University of the Arts and since 2017 honorary professor at the Africa Open Institute at Stellenbosch University .

Walton has published several times on the history of music in Switzerland, including on Othmar Schoeck , Heinrich Sutermeister , Erich Schmid , Hans Schaeuble , Czesław Marek , Adolf Brunner , Mathilde Wesendonck , Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee , Marcel Sulzberger and Räto Tschupp . As a CD producer, he put around 20 Swiss composers on CD for the first time. For 20 years he has been working as a translator in the Swiss economy, music and film scene.

Walton is married and has two daughters and one son.

Honors

  • Honorary member of the Zurich General Music Society
  • Chancellor's Medal for Research at the University of Pretoria
  • Max Geilinger Prize 2009

Fonts (selection)

  • Othmar Schoeck. A biography . Atlantis music book, Zurich 1994, ISBN 978-3-254-00168-9 .
  • Sound bites. A novel . Jacana, Johannesburg 2006, ISBN 978-1-77009-191-7 (plays in the Zurich music scene in 1916).
  • Richard Wagner's Zurich. The Muse of Place. Camden House, Rochester, New York 2007, ISBN 978-1-57113-331-1 .
  • Othmar Schoeck. Life and Works . University of Rochester Press, Rochester, New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-58046-300-3 .
  • Marcel HS Sulzberger (1879–1941): a Swiss pioneer of atonality between Dada and young classicism . Amadeus, Winterthur 2010, ISBN 978-3-905786-06-4 .
  • Chris Walton: Lies and Enlightenments, Composers and Their Inspiration from Wagner to Berg ; Original title Lies and Epiphanies ... , translated from English by Tobias Neumann; Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2017; 183 p., Ill. ; ISBN 978-3-8260-6340-4

Discography (selection)

  • Vola, o serenata : Otto Linsi, tenor, Chris Walton, piano (Italian songs and arias by Giuseppe Verdi and Gaetano Donizetti, as well as first recordings of 3 songs by Augusto Rotoli (1847-1904) and others); Gallo CD-886, Lausanne 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christopher Walton, Mediator of Swiss Music Creation in the Anglo-Saxon World , ed. from the Max Geilinger Foundation , Zurich 2009; 48 p., Ill .: contains laudatory speech by Roman Brotbeck, p. 7–16.
personal data
SURNAME Walton, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walton, Christopher Robert (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British music historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Billingham , England