This composer’s cello concerto ends with the soloist playing a glissando cadence to a low C, and incorporates two separate cadenzas in its third movement. After a quiet, layered horn chord, a symphony by this composer begins with an obsessive eighth-sixteenth rest-sixteenth ostinato in the violas; that B-flat minor symphony’s irregularly metered second movement is marked Presto con malizia. While living in self-imposed exile on Ischia, this composer continually revised his setting of absurdist spoken poems by Edith Sitwell, titled Façade. This composer’s Orb and Sceptre march was written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and followed his earlier coronation march Crown Imperial. After Lionel Tertis rejected it, Paul Hindemith premiered this composer’s Viola Concerto. For 10 points, name this British composer of the cantata Belshazzar’s Feast. ■END■
ANSWER: William Walton [or William Turner Walton]
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