Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams ( ;); Ursula Vaughan Williams said that he was infuriated if people pronounced it in any other way.|group= n}} 12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over sixty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century.Vaughan Williams was born to a well-to-do family with strong moral views and a progressive social outlook. Throughout his life he sought to be of service to his fellow citizens, and believed in making music as available as possible to everybody. He wrote many works for amateur and student performance. He was musically a late developer, not finding his true voice until his late thirties; his studies in 1907–1908 with the French composer Maurice Ravel helped him clarify the textures of his music and free it from Teutonic influences.
Vaughan Williams is among the best-known British symphonists, noted for his very wide range of moods, from stormy and impassioned to tranquil, from mysterious to exuberant. Among the most familiar of his other concert works are ''Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis'' (1910) and ''The Lark Ascending'' (1914). His vocal works include hymns, folk-song arrangements and large-scale choral pieces. He wrote eight works for stage performance between 1919 and 1951. Although none of his operas became popular repertoire pieces, his ballet ''Job: A Masque for Dancing'' (1930) was successful and has been frequently staged.
Two episodes made notably deep impressions in Vaughan Williams's personal life. The First World War, in which he served in the army, had a lasting emotional effect. Twenty years later, though in his sixties and devotedly married, he was reinvigorated by a love affair with a much younger woman, who later became his second wife. He went on composing through his seventies and eighties, producing his last symphony months before his death at the age of eighty-five. His works have continued to be a staple of the British concert repertoire, and all his major compositions and many of the minor ones have been recorded. Provided by Wikipedia
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Vaughan Williams greatest hits. by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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Anniversary collector's edition / by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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A portrait of Vaughan Williams. by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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A portrait of Vaughan Williams. by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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A portrait of Vaughan Williams. by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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Overture, The wasp ; The lark ascending ; Fantasia on greensleeves ; Oboe concerto ; Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis ; Five variants of Dives and Lazarus / by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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Twentieth century British choral music. by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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A sea symphony : symphony no. 1 / by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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The film music of Ralph Vaughan Williams. by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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The film music of Ralph Vaughan Williams. by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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The film music of Ralph Vaughan Williams. by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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Fantasia on Christmas Carols ; The First Nowell ; On Christmas Night / by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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An introduction to Ralph Vaughn Williams. by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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Vaughan Williams. by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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Songs of travel ; Four poems of Fredegond Shove ; House of life / by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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Symphony no. 5 in D ; The lark ascending / by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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A sea symphony : (no. 1) / by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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Sinfonia Antartica (no. 7) ; Toward the unknown region / by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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Symphony no. 9 in E minor ; Piano concerto in C major / by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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A Cotswold romance ; Death of Tintagiles / by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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