![]() Common adjectives attached to the work include "monumental" and "magisterial", and it is said to have "unearthed much new material and provided a strong stimulus for further research". His three-volume biography of Franz Liszt, which took him 25 years to complete, has been very influential. From 1984 to 1987, he was a distinguished visiting professor of music at City University in London. Since 1995, he has been professor emeritus at McMaster. In 1981, he was responsible for the establishment at McMaster of the first graduate program in music criticism in Canada. Seeking to return to his "first love", teaching, he gave up radio production and took an appointment as Professor of Music at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where he chaired the department of music from 1971 to 1980, and from 1989 to 1995. Walker worked at the BBC Radio Music Division as a producer between 19. He also taught at the University of London from 1954 to 1960. ![]() These lessons were resumed, albeit irregularly, once Walker joined Keller at the BBC in 1961.įrom 1958 to 1961 Walker lectured at the Guildhall School of Music, having studied piano there with Alfred Nieman, noted for teaching improvisational techniques. Between 19 he studied privately with Hans Keller, an association which he has always acknowledged as formative. He received an LGSM certificate in 1949, ARCM in 1950, a Bachelor of Music from University of Durham in 1956, and a Doctor of Music in 1965. Walker was born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.
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