Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Ralph Vaughan Williams 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.
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Vaughan Williams c. 1920
Leith Hill Place, Surrey, Vaughan Williams's childhood home
Hubert Parry, Vaughan Williams's first composition teacher at the Royal College of Music
Charles Villiers Stanford, Vaughan Williams's second composition teacher at the RCM
Vaughan Williams in 1898
Vaughan Williams lived in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, from 1905 to 1929
Maurice Ravel in 1906
Vaughan Williams in 1913Listen
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Humphrey JenningsAlso in The Dim Little Island (1949)
Yehudi MenuhinAlso won Walter Willson Cobbett Medal
John CageAlso won Honorary Member of the International Society for Contemporary Music
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and StrathearnAlso won Albert Medal
Gustav HolstAlso won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Mstislav RostropovichAlso won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold MedalAbout this person
Ralph Vaughan Williams 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.
Country
United KingdomCategory
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1872 to 1958 · aged 85
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