This was not the first time Walton had been inspired by a scene from the visual arts his Portsmouth Point Overture, a work for orchestra composed in 1925 when the composer was 23, emerged as a musical reflection on a famous caricature by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) of the busy docks of Portsmouth.
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William Walton's Scapino: A Comedy Overture took as its inspiration a series of engravings from 1622 by Jacques Callot of the Balli di sfessania - specifically Callot's depiction of the jaunty and mischievous Scapino, a character related to those of the commedia dell'arte.
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