Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM (1872–1958) was an influential English composer.… Read Full Bio ↴Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM (1872–1958) was an influential English composer.
Vaughan Williams was born on 12th October 1872 in Down Ampney, a village in the Cotswolds. After attending Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he became a student at the Royal College of Music; he later studied with Max Bruch in Berlin and Maurice Ravel in Paris.
He served as a lieutenant in World War I, having volunteered for the Field Ambulance Service; the appalling carnage affected him deeply, as did the deaths of close friends such as George Butterworth.
He wrote nine symphonies between 1910 and 1958, as well as numerous other works including chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also one of the first serious collectors of English folk music and served as president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS). The Society's Vaughan Williams Memorial Library is named for him.
Vaughan Williams died on 26th August 1958, and his ashes are interred in Westminster Abbey.
Vaughan Williams was born on 12th October 1872 in Down Ampney, a village in the Cotswolds. After attending Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he became a student at the Royal College of Music; he later studied with Max Bruch in Berlin and Maurice Ravel in Paris.
He served as a lieutenant in World War I, having volunteered for the Field Ambulance Service; the appalling carnage affected him deeply, as did the deaths of close friends such as George Butterworth.
He wrote nine symphonies between 1910 and 1958, as well as numerous other works including chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also one of the first serious collectors of English folk music and served as president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS). The Society's Vaughan Williams Memorial Library is named for him.
Vaughan Williams died on 26th August 1958, and his ashes are interred in Westminster Abbey.
Symphony No. 6 in E minorEpilogue
Ralph Vaughan Williams Lyrics
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Fantasia on "Greensleeves" I got someone at home, don't know whats going on Thinks…
Fantasia on "Greensleeves" (Plymouth Festival Orchestra) Now there you go again you say you want your…
Fantasia on Greensleeves I got someone at home, don't know whats going on Thinks…
Rest O Earth lie heavily upon her eyes; Seal her sweet eyes…
The Turtle Dove Fare you well my dear I must be gone and leave…
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Fred Wheeler
Vaughn-Williams is nothing less than Monumental.
Cayde 666
Absolutly unforgetable this war, this music..... no words can describe my emotions
Mike C
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Charles Buxton
Agreed, it's overwhelming.
organo3112
I claim VW is the UK's greatest symphonist. I think there are other great symphonies but as a body of work VW surpasses others and perhaps has not really had the recognition due. Though not ultra avantgarde it is discernibly of its time.
klop422
I'd maybe argue Elgar (his two - or three, if you count Payne's completion - are masterworks) but Vaughan Williams makes up for any difference potential in volume - all nine of his are fantastic pieces (even if one or two of them aren't entirely in my taste). Same goes for Walton.
William Rubinstein
Not only the UK's greatest composer.
paulprocopolis
And each symphony has its own unique character, whilst being discernibly from the same author.
burton48
A masterpiece. The ending appears to resolve into a major chord of final peace, but then the minor chord ends the symphony perhaps as a portent of strife to come.
Charles Buxton
That ending chord is E Minor, the key of the symphony. All that it shares with the preceding Eb Major chord is their common G note, the third of each chord.