Autographs of William Walton
Sir William Turner Walton (29 March 1902 – 8 March 1983) 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, the cantata Belshazzar's Feast, the Viola Concerto, the First Symphony, and the British coronation marches Crown Imperial and Orb and Sceptre.
Born in Lancashire, the son of a classical musician, Walton was a chorister and then an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford. On leaving the university, he was taken up by the literary 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 modernist, but later became a popular ballet score.
In middle age, Walton left England and set up home with his young wife Susana on the Italian island of Ischia. By this time, he had ceased to be regarded as a modernist, and some of his compositions of the 1950s were criticised as old-fashioned. His only full-length opera, Troilus and Cressida, was among the works to be so labelled and has made little impact in opera houses. In his last years, his works came back into critical fashion; his later compositions, dismissed by critics at the time of their premieres, were revalued and regarded alongside his earlier works.
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Traded items with a signature of William Walton
The most expensive item with a signature of William Walton (SAX 2576 *SIGNED* by William Walton Hindemith Variation Szell Columbia 1st R/S) was sold in January 2026 for £255.00 while the cheapest item ( WILLIAM WALTON SIGNED by his wife SUSANNA WALTON FRAMED POSTCARD) found a new owner for £2.00 in September 2012. The month with the most items sold (2) was September 2021 with an average selling price of £21.50 for an autographed item of William Walton. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in January 2026 with £216.09 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £3.99 was October 2021. In average, an autographed item from William Walton is worth £24.99.
Most recently, these items with a signature of William Walton were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Christopher Hassall libretto William Walton Troilus & Cressida opera 1954 Signed | £10.99 |  |
| Christopher Hassall libretto William Walton Troilus & Cressida opera 1954 Signed | £10.99 | |
| Signed - Innkeeper - William Walton, Mel Lorentzen - Vintage Hardcover | £43.56 | |
| Signed - Innkeeper - William Walton, Mel Lorentzen - Vintage Hardcover | £43.56 | |
| Sir William Walton, Great British Composer, Signed Handwritten Letter from Italy | £164.20 | |
| Sir William Walton, Great British Composer, Signed Handwritten Letter from Italy | £164.20 | |
| William Walton - Belshazzars Feast -Signed Copy No: 148 - OUP Centennial Edition | £100.00 | |
| William Walton - Belshazzars Feast -Signed Copy No: 296 - OUP Centennial Edition | £69.00 | |
| William Walton - Belshazzars Feast -Signed Copy No: 296 - OUP Centennial Edition | £69.00 | |
| William WALTON / Belshazzar's Feast for baritone solo mixed choir Signed 1978 | £216.09 | |
| William WALTON / Belshazzar's Feast for baritone solo mixed choir Signed 1978 | £216.09 | |
| William Walton: Behind the Facade signed by Susana Walton.Hardback. | £9.00 | |
| William Walton: Behind the Facade signed by Susana Walton.Hardback. | £9.00 | |
 | William Walton: Façade, an Entertainment (signed Limited Edition facsimile 1972) | £213.18 | |
| William Walton: Façade, an Entertainment (signed Limited Edition facsimile 1972) | £213.18 | |
