Walton, Chris, 1963-

LC control no.	n 2001082668
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PR9369.4.W35
Personal name heading	Walton, Chris, 1963- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Walton, Christopher Robert, 1963-
Birth date	1963
Place of birth	Billingham (England)
Field of activity	Music
Profession or occupation	College teachers
Found in	Czesław Marek, 1999: t.p. (Chris Walton) Musik & Theater WWW site, Nov. 07, 2001: Archiv (Chris Walton, b. 1963, Billingham, England) University of Pretoria, WWW site, Jan. 22, 2004: http://www.up.ac.za/academic/music/StaffPages/ProfChrisWalton.htm (Prof. C. Walton; Chris Walton; b. 1963, northern England; D.Phil. at Christ Church, Oxford; from 1990 to 2001 he was Head of Music Division at the Zurich Central Library, and in the late 1990s also taught music history at the Swiss Federal Technical University in Zurich; President of the Swiss Association of Music Librarians, of the Hans Schaeuble Foundation and of the Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft Zürich; appointed Professor and Head of Music Department at Pretoria University in 2001; author of books on O. Schoek, C. Marek, A. Brunner, R. Wagner, etc.) Dictionary of South African composers, via WWW, Feb. 9, 2004: home page (Chris Walton; Univ. of Pretoria) OCLC, Feb. 10, 2004 (hdgs.: Walton, Chris, 1963- ; Walton, Christopher Robert; usage: Chris Walton) Email from C. Walton, Feb. 10, 2004 (b. 1963; only publishes under Chris Walton, though full name is Christopher Robert Walton) Sound bites, 2006: t.p. (Chris Walton) cover p. 4 (studied at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Munich, and Zurich; has spent most of his adult life in Switzerland, but lives today in South Africa with his wife, also a novelist, and their 3 children; is a professor of music at the Univ. of Pretoria; has published over a dozen historical books in English and German and has had short stories published and broadcast in South Africa. This is his first novel)
Associated language	eng