Ralph Vaughan Williams

United Kingdom
October 12, 1872 – August 26, 1958

Ralph Vaughan Williams ( ( listen); 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.

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13 countries

Ralph Vaughan Williams top songs

1	Vaughan Williams - The Vagabond
2	Greensleeves
3	Agnus Dei
4	Vaughan Williams Talking About Folk Song
5	Prelude (From "49th Parallel")
6	Sing of Mary
7	Coastal Command Suite: VIII. Finale
8	Vaughan Williams Talking About Parry
9	Symphony No. 5 in D Major: II. Scherzo. Presto misterioso
10	The Story of a Flemish Farm Suite: IV. In a Belgian Café
11	Symphony No. 2 "London": IIb. —
12	Toccata Marziale
13	Vaughan Williams talking about Sibelius
14	Coastal Command Suite: II. The Hebrides

Ralph Vaughan Williams quotes

Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered.