Ralph Vaughan Williams
Born: 12th October 1872, Down Ampney
Died: 26th August 1958, London
Nationality: English
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.
Vaughan Williams was born to a well-to-do family with strong moral views and a progressive social life. Throughout his life he sought to be of service to his fellow citizens, and believed in making music as available as possible to everybody.
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- A Farmer’s Son so Sweet (1)
- An Acre of Land (1)
- Bushes and Briars (1)
- Ca' the Yowes (1)
- Christmas Dance (1)
- Down by the Riverside (1)
- English Folk Song Suite (1)
- Fantasia on Christmas Carols (1)
- For all the saints (Sine nomine) (1)
- Greensleeves (1)
- John Dory (1)
- Just as the Tide was Flowing (1)
- Loch Lomond (1)
- Mass in G minor (1)
- My Boy Billy (1)
- Silent Noon (1)
- Six Studies in English Folksong (1)
- The blessed Son of God (1)
- The Cuckoo and the Nightingale (1)
- The Dark-Eyed Sailor (1)
- The Jolly Ploughboy (1)
- The Lark Ascending (1)
- The Lover's Ghost (1)
- The Painful Plough (1)
- The Spring Time of the Year (1)
- The Turtle Dove (1)
- Ward the Pirate (1)
- Wassail Song (1)
- Wither's rocking hymn (1)