Sixteen when he wrote the piano quartet piece,
and eighty when he said: “I must
revise it, ” Walton proved that those who do not cease
creating have a cure for rust.
William Walton wrote his piano quartet in 1918, when he was sixteen, and revised it with enormous pleasure when eighty.
11/13/07
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem