Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams “Vaughan Williams” redirects here. For other uses, see phonists, noted for his very wide range of moods, from Vaughan Williams (disambiguation). 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.

1 Life and career Vaughan Williams c. 1920

1.1 Early years

Ralph Vaughan Williams OM (/ˌreɪf ˌvɔːn ˈwɪljəmz/[n 1] 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 nearly fifty 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 at Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, the third child and younger son of the vicar, the Rev Arthur Vaughan Williams (1834–1875) and his wife, Margaret, née Wedgwood (1842–1937).[2][n 2] His paternal forebears were of mixed English and Welsh descent; many of them went into the law or the Church. The judges Sir Edward and Sir Roland Vaughan Williams were respectively Arthur’s father and brother.[4] Margaret Vaughan Williams was a great-granddaughter of Josiah Vaughan Williams was born to a well-to-do family with Wedgwood and niece of Charles Darwin.[n 3] strong moral views and a progressive social outlook. Arthur Vaughan Williams died suddenly in February Throughout his life he sought to be of service to his fel- 1875, and his widow took the children to live in her family low citizens, and believed in making music as available as home, Leith Hill Place, Wotton, Surrey.[5] The children possible to everybody. He wrote many works for amateur were under the care of a nurse, Sara Wager, who instilled and student performance. He was musically a late devel- in them not only polite manners and good behaviour oper, not finding his true voice until his late thirties; his but also liberal social and philosophical opinions.[6] Such studies in 1907–08 with the French composer Maurice views were consistent with the progressive-minded tradiRavel helped him clarify the textures of his music and tion of both sides of the family. When the young Vaughan free it from Teutonic influences. Williams asked his mother about Darwin’s controversial Vaughan Williams is among the best-known British sym- book On the Origin of Species, she answered, “The Bible 1

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Leith Hill Place, Surrey, Vaughan Williams’s childhood home

says that God made the world in six days. Great Un- Hubert Parry, Vaughan Williams’s first composition teacher at cle Charles thinks it took longer: but we need not worry the Royal College of Music about it, for it is equally wonderful either way”.[7] In 1878, at the age of five, Vaughan Williams began receiving piano lessons from his aunt, Sophy Wedgwood. He displayed signs of musical talent early on, composing his first piece of music, a four-bar piano piece called “The Robin’s Nest”, in the same year. He did not greatly like the piano, and was pleased to begin violin lessons the following year.[5][8] In 1880, when he was eight, he took a correspondence course in music from Edinburgh University and passed the associated examinations.[8]

1.2 Royal College of Music and Trinity, Cambridge

In July 1890 Vaughan Williams left Charterhouse and in September he was enrolled as a student at the Royal College of Music (RCM), London. After a compulsory course in harmony with Francis Edward Gladstone, professor of organ, counterpoint and harmony, he studied organ with Walter Parratt and composition with Hubert In September 1883 he went as a boarder to Field House Parry. He idolised Parry,[13] and recalled in his Musical preparatory school in Rottingdean on the south coast of Autobiography (1950): England, forty miles from Wotton. He was generally happy there, although he was shocked to encounter for Parry once said to me: “Write choral music the first time social snobbery and political conservatism as befits an Englishman and a democrat”. We which were rife among his fellow pupils.[9] From there he pupils of Parry have, if we have been wise, inmoved on to the public school Charterhouse in January herited from him the great English choral tra1887. His academic and sporting achievements there dition, which Tallis passed on to Byrd, Byrd were satisfactory, and the school encouraged his musi[10] to Gibbons, Gibbons to Purcell, Purcell to cal development. In 1888 he organised a concert in the Battishill and Greene, and they in their turn school hall, which included a performance of his G major [5] through the Wesleys, to Parry. He has passed Piano Trio (now lost) with the composer as violinist. on the torch to us and it is our duty to keep it While at Charterhouse Vaughan Williams found that relialight.[14] gion meant less and less to him, and for a while he was an atheist. This softened into “a cheerful agnosticism”,[11] and he continued to attend church regularly to avoid up- Vaughan Williams’s family would have preferred him to setting the family. His views on religion did not affect his have remained at Charterhouse for two more years and love of the Authorised Version of the Bible, the beauty of then go on to Cambridge University. They were not conwhich, in the words of Ursula Vaughan Williams in her vinced that he was talented enough to pursue a musical 1964 biography of the composer, remained “one of his career, but feeling it would be wrong to prevent him from essential companions through life.”[11] In this, as in many trying, they had allowed him to go to the RCM.[n 4] Nevother things in his life, he was, according to his biogra- ertheless, a university education was expected of him, pher Michael Kennedy, “that extremely English product and in 1892 he temporarily left the RCM and entered the natural nonconformist with a conservative regard for Trinity College, Cambridge, where he spent three years, studying music and history.[5] the best tradition”.[12]

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Early career

Among those with whom Vaughan Williams became friendly at Cambridge were the philosophers G. E. Moore and Bertrand Russell, the historian G. M. Trevelyan and the musician Hugh Allen.[2][16] He felt intellectually overshadowed by some of his companions, but he learned much from them and formed lifelong friendships with several.[17] Among the women with whom he mixed socially at Cambridge was Adeline Fisher, the daughter of Herbert Fisher, an old friend of the Vaughan Williams family. She and Vaughan Williams grew close, and in June 1897, after he had left Cambridge, they became engaged to be married.[18][n 5]

3 modal music.[21] In his second spell at the RCM (1895–96) Vaughan Williams got to know a fellow student, Gustav Holst, who became a lifelong friend. Stanford emphasised the need for his students to be self-critical, but Vaughan Williams and Holst became, and remained, one another’s most valued critic; each would play his latest composition to the other while still working on it. Vaughan Williams later observed, “What one really learns from an Academy or College is not so much from one’s official teachers as from one’s fellow-students ... [we discussed] every subject under the sun from the lowest note of the double bassoon to the philosophy of Jude the Obscure".[22] In 1949 he wrote of their relationship, “Holst declared that his music was influenced by that of his friend: the converse is certainly true.”[23]

1.3 Early career Vaughan Williams had a modest private income, which in his early career he supplemented with a variety of musical activities. Although the organ was not his preferred instrument,[n 6] the only post he ever held for an annual salary was as a church organist and choirmaster. He held the position at St Barnabas, in the inner London district of South Lambeth, from 1895 to 1899 for a salary of £50 a year. He disliked the job, but working closely with a choir was valuable experience for his later undertakings.[24]

Charles Villiers Stanford, Vaughan Williams’s second composition teacher at the RCM

During his time at Cambridge Vaughan Williams continued his weekly lessons with Parry, and studied composition with Charles Wood and organ with Alan Gray. He graduated as Bachelor of Music in 1894 and Bachelor of Arts the following year.[5] After leaving the university he returned to complete his training at the RCM. Parry had by then succeeded Sir George Grove as director of the college, and Vaughan Williams’s new professor of composition was Charles Villiers Stanford. Relations between teacher and student were stormy. Stanford, who had been adventurous in his younger days, had grown deeply conservative; he clashed vigorously with his modern-minded pupil. Vaughan Williams had no wish to follow in the traditions of Stanford’s idols, Brahms and Wagner, and he stood up to his teacher as few students dared to do.[20] Beneath Stanford’s bluster lay a recognition of Vaughan Williams’s talent and a desire to help the young man correct his opaque orchestration and extreme predilection for

Vaughan Williams lived in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea from 1905 to 1929

In October 1897 Adeline and Vaughan Williams were married. They honeymooned for several months in Berlin, where he studied with Max Bruch.[2] On their return they settled in London, originally in Westminster and, from 1905, in Chelsea. There were no children of the marriage.[25] In 1899 Vaughan Williams passed the examination for the degree of Doctor of Music at Cambridge; the title was formally conferred on him in 1901.[25][26] The song “Linden Lea” became the first of his works to appear in print, published in the magazine The Vocalist in April 1902 and

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then as separate sheet music.[5][27] In addition to composition he occupied himself in several capacities during the first decade of the century. He wrote articles for musical journals and for the second edition of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited the first volume of Purcell’s Welcome Songs for the Purcell Society, and was for a while involved in adult education in the University Extension Lectures. From 1904 to 1906 he was music editor of a new hymn-book, The English Hymnal, of which he later said, “I now know that two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues”.[28] Always committed to music-making for the whole community, he helped found the amateur Leith Hill Music Festival in 1905, and was appointed its principal conductor, a post he held until 1953.[2] In 1903–04 Vaughan Williams started collecting folksongs. He had always been interested in them, and now followed the example of a recent generation of enthusiasts such as Cecil Sharp and Lucy Broadwood in going into the English countryside noting down and transcribing songs traditionally sung in various locations.[29] Collections of the songs were published, preserving many that could otherwise have vanished as oral traditions died out. Vaughan Williams incorporated some into his own compositions, and more generally was influenced by their prevailing modal forms.[30] This, together with his love of Tudor and Stuart music, helped shape his compositional Maurice Ravel in 1906 style for the rest of his career.[2] Over this period Vaughan Williams composed steadily, producing songs, choral music, chamber works and orchestral pieces, gradually finding the beginnings of his mature style.[31] His compositions included the tone poem In the Fen Country (1904) and the Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 (1906).[32] He remained unsatisfied with his technique as a composer. After unsuccessfully seeking lessons from Sir Edward Elgar,[33] he contemplated studying with Vincent d'Indy in Paris. Instead, he was introduced by the critic and musicologist M. D. Calvocoressi to Maurice Ravel, a more modernist, less dogmatic musician than d'Indy.[33]

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Ravel; rising fame; First World War

Ravel took few pupils, and was known as a demanding taskmaster for those he agreed to teach.[34] Vaughan Williams spent three months in Paris in the winter of 1907–08, working with him four or five times each week.[35] There is little documentation of Vaughan Williams’s time with Ravel; the musicologist Byron Adams advises caution in relying on Vaughan Williams’s recollections in the Musical Autobiography written fortythree years after the event.[36] The degree to which the French composer influenced the Englishman’s style is debated.[37] Ravel declared Vaughan Williams to be “my only pupil who does not write my music";[38] neverthe-

less, commentators including Kennedy, Adams, Hugh Ottaway and Alain Frogley find Vaughan Williams’s instrumental textures lighter and sharper in the music written after his return from Paris, such as the String Quartet in G minor, On Wenlock Edge, the Overture to The Wasps and A Sea Symphony.[30][39] Vaughan Williams himself said that Ravel had helped him escape from “the heavy contrapuntal Teutonic manner”.[40] In the years between his return from Paris in 1908 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Vaughan Williams increasingly established himself as a figure in British music. For a rising composer it was important to receive performances at the big provincial music festivals, which generated publicity and royalties.[41] In 1910 his music featured at two of the largest and most prestigious festivals, with the premieres of the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral in September and A Sea Symphony at the Leeds Festival the following month.[42][43] The leading British music critics of the time, J. A. Fuller Maitland of The Times and Samuel Langford of The Manchester Guardian, were strong in their praise. The former wrote of the fantasia, “The work is wonderful because it seems to lift one into some unknown region of musical thought and feeling. Throughout its course one is never sure whether one is listening to something very old or very new”.[42] Langford declared that the symphony

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“definitely places a new figure in the first rank of our English composers”.[44][n 7] Between these successes and the start of war Vaughan Williams’s largest-scale work was the first version of A London Symphony (1914). In the same year he wrote The Lark Ascending in its original form for violin and piano.[5]

5 before feeling ready to compose new works. He revised some earlier pieces, and turned his attention to other musical activities. In 1919 he accepted an invitation from Hugh Allen, who had succeeded Parry as director, to teach composition at the RCM; he remained on the faculty of the college for the next twenty years.[48][n 8] In 1921 he succeeded Allen as conductor of the Bach Choir, London. It was not until 1922 that he produced a major new composition, A Pastoral Symphony; the work was given its first performance in London in May conducted by Adrian Boult and its American premiere in New York in December conducted by the composer.[51]

Vaughan Williams in 1913

Despite his age—he was forty-two in 1914—Vaughan Williams volunteered for military service on the outbreak of the First World War. Joining the Royal Army Medical Corps as a private, he drove ambulance wagons in France and later in Greece. Frogley writes of this period that Vaughan Williams was considerably older than most of his comrades, and “the back-breaking labour of dangerous night-time journeys through mud and rain must have been more than usually punishing”.[2] The war left its emotional mark on Vaughan Williams, who lost many comrades and friends, including the young composer George Butterworth.[46] In 1917 Vaughan Williams was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, seeing action in France from March 1918. The continual noise of the guns damaged his hearing, and led to deafness in his later years.[47] After the armistice in 1918 he served as director of music for the British First Army until demobilised in February 1919.[4]

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Vaughan Williams in 1922

Throughout the 1920s Vaughan Williams continued to compose, conduct and teach. Kennedy lists forty works premiered during the decade, including the Mass in G minor (1922), the ballet Old King Cole (1923), the operas Hugh the Drover and Sir John in Love (1924 and 1928), the suite Flos Campi (1925) and the oratorio Sancta Civitas (1925).[52] During the decade Adeline became increasingly immobilised by arthritis, and the numerous stairs in their London house finally caused the Vaughan Williamses to move in 1929 to a more manageable home, “The White Gates”, Dorking, where they lived until Adeline’s death in 1951. Vaughan Williams, who thought of himself as a complete Londoner, was sorry to leave the capital, but his wife was anxious to live in the country, and Dorking was within reasonably convenient reach of town.[53]

In 1932 Vaughan Williams was elected president of the During the war Vaughan Williams stopped writing mu- English Folk Dance and Song Society. From September sic, and after returning to civilian life he took some time to December of that year he was in the US as a visit-

6 ing lecturer at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania.[5] The texts of his lectures were published under the title National Music in 1934; they sum up his artistic and social credo more fully than anything he had published previously, and remained in print for most of the remainder of the century.[2] During the 1930s Vaughan Williams came to be regarded as a leading figure in British music, particularly after the deaths of Elgar, Delius and Holst in 1934.[54] Holst’s death was a severe personal and professional blow to Vaughan Williams; the two had been each other’s closest friends and musical advisers since their college days. After Holst’s death Vaughan Williams was glad of the advice and support of other friends including Boult and the composer Gerald Finzi,[55] but his relationship with Holst was irreplaceable.[56]

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1.6 1939–52 During the Second World War Vaughan Williams was active in civilian war work, chairing the Home Office Committee for the Release of Interned Alien Musicians, helping Myra Hess with the organisation of the daily National Gallery concerts, serving on a committee for refugees from Nazi oppression, and on the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), the forerunner of the Arts Council.[5] In 1940 he composed his first film score, for the propaganda film 49th Parallel.[61]

In 1942 Michael Wood died suddenly of heart failure. At Adeline’s behest the widowed Ursula was invited to stay with the Vaughan Williamses in Dorking, and thereafter was a regular visitor there, sometimes staying for weeks at a time. The critic Michael White suggests that Adeline In some of Vaughan Williams’s music of the 1930s there “appears, in the most amicable way, to have adopted Ur[62] is an explicitly dark, even violent tone. The ballet Job: A sula as her successor”. Ursula recorded that during air Masque for Dancing (1930) and the Fourth Symphony raids all three slept in the same room in adjacent beds, [62] (1935) surprised the public and critics.[30] The discor- holding hands for comfort. dant and violent tone of the symphony, written at a time In 1943 Vaughan Williams conducted the premiere of his of growing international tension, led many critics to sup- Fifth Symphony at the Proms. Its serene tone contrasted pose the symphony to be programmatic. Hubert Foss with the stormy Fourth, and led some commentators to dubbed it “The Romantic” and Frank Howes called it think it a symphonic valediction. William Glock wrote “The Fascist”.[57] The composer dismissed such interpre- that it was “like the work of a distinguished poet who has tations, and insisted that the work was absolute music, nothing very new to say, but says it in exquisitely flowwith no programme of any kind; nonetheless, some of ing language”.[63] The music Vaughan Williams wrote for those close to him, including Foss and Boult, remained the BBC to celebrate the end of the war, Thanksgiving convinced that something of the troubled spirit of the age for Victory, was marked by what the critic Edward Lockwas captured in the work.[57][n 9] speiser called the composer’s characteristic avoidance of As the decade progressed, Vaughan Williams found musical inspiration lacking, and experienced his first fallow period since his wartime musical silence. After his anti-war cantata Dona nobis pacem in 1936 he did not complete another work of substantial length until late in 1941, when the first version of the Fifth Symphony was completed.[2] In 1938 Vaughan Williams met Ursula Wood (1911– 2007), the wife of an army officer, Captain (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Michael Forrester Wood.[59] She was a poet, and had approached the composer with a proposed scenario for a ballet. Despite their both being married, and a four-decade age-gap, they fell in love almost from their first meeting; they maintained a secret love affair for more than a decade.[60] Ursula became the composer’s muse, helper and London companion, and later helped him care for his ailing wife. Whether Adeline knew, or suspected, that Ursula and Vaughan Williams were lovers is uncertain, but the relations between the two women were of warm friendship throughout the years they knew each other. The composer’s concern for his first wife never faltered, according to Ursula, who admitted in the 1980s that she had been jealous of Adeline, whose place in Vaughan Williams’s life and affections was unchallengeable.[60]

“any suggestion of rhetorical pompousness”.[64] Any suspicion that the septuagenarian composer had settled into benign tranquillity was dispelled by his Sixth Symphony (1948), described by the critic Gwyn Parry-Jones as “one of the most disturbing musical statements of the 20th century”, opening with a “primal scream, plunging the listener immediately into a world of aggression and impending chaos.”[65] Coming as it did near the start of the Cold War, many critics thought its pianissimo last movement a depiction of a nuclear-scorched wasteland.[66] The composer was dismissive of programmatic theories: “It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.”[67] In 1951 Adeline died, aged eighty.[68] In the same year Vaughan Williams’s last opera, The Pilgrim’s Progress, was staged at Covent Garden as part of the Festival of Britain. He had been working intermittently on a musical treatment of John Bunyan's allegory for forty-five years, and the 1951 “morality” was the final result. The reviews were respectful,[69] but the work did not catch the operagoing public’s imagination, and the Royal Opera House’s production was “insultingly half-hearted” according to Frogley.[2] The piece was revived the following year, but was still not a great success. Vaughan Williams commented to Ursula, “They don't like it, they won't like it, they don't want an opera with no heroine and no love duets—and I don't care, it’s what I meant, and there it

7 again, having been invited to lecture at Cornell and other universities and to conduct. He received an enthusiastic welcome from large audiences, and was overwhelmed at the warmth of his reception.[74] Kennedy describes it as “like a musical state occasion”.[75] Of Vaughan Williams’s works from the 1950s, Grove makes particular mention of Three Shakespeare Songs (1951) for unaccompanied chorus, the Christmas cantata Hodie (1953–4), the Violin Sonata, and, most particularly, the Ten Blake Songs (1957) for voice and oboe, “a masterpiece of economy and precision”.[30] Unfinished works from the decade were a cello concerto and a new opera, Thomas the Rhymer.[76] The predominant works of the 1950s were his three last symphonies. The seventh—officially unnumbered, and titled Sinfonia antartica—divided opinion; the score is a reworking of muThe Pilgrim’s Progress– inspiration to Vaughan Williams across sic Vaughan Williams had written for the 1948 film Scott forty-five years of the Antarctic, and some critics thought it not truly symphonic.[30] The Eighth, though wistful in parts, is predominantly lighthearted in tone; it was received enthusiis.”[70] astically at its premiere in 1956, given by the Hallé Orchestra under the dedicatee, Sir John Barbirolli.[77] The 1.7 Second marriage and last years Ninth, premiered at a Royal Philharmonic Society concert conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent in April 1958, In February 1953 Vaughan Williams and Ursula were puzzled critics with its sombre, questing tone, and did not married.[n 10] He left the Dorking house and they took a immediately achieve the recognition it later gained.[30] lease of 10 Hanover Terrace, Regent’s Park, London. It Having been in excellent health, Vaughan Williams died was the year of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation; Vaughan suddenly in the early hours of 26 August 1958 at Hanover Williams’s contribution was an arrangement of the Old Terrace.[78] Two days later, after a private funeral at Hundredth psalm tune, and a new setting of “O taste Golder’s Green, he was cremated. On 19 September, at a and see” from Psalm 34, performed at the service in crowded memorial service, the ashes were interred near Westminster Abbey.[71] the burial plots of Purcell and Stanford in the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey.[79][80]

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Vaughan Williams signing the guest book at Yale University in 1954

Having returned to live in London, Vaughan Williams, with Ursula’s encouragement, became much more active socially and in pro bono publico activities. He was a leading figure in the Society for the Promotion of New Music,[72] and in 1954 he set up and endowed the Vaughan Williams Trust to support young composers and promote new or neglected music.[73] He and his wife travelled extensively in Europe, and in 1954 he visited the US once

See also: List of compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams Michael Kennedy characterises Vaughan Williams’s music as a strongly individual blending of the modal harmonies familiar from folk‐song with the French influence of Ravel and Debussy. The basis of his work is melody, his rhythms, in Kennedy’s view, being unsubtle at times.[81] Vaughan Williams’s music is often described as visionary;[n 11] Kennedy cites the masque Job and the Fifth and Ninth Symphonies.[81] Vaughan Williams’s output was prolific and wide ranging. For the voice he composed songs, operas, and choral works ranging from simpler pieces suitable for amateurs to demanding works for professional choruses. His comparatively few chamber works are not among his better known compositions.[88] Some of his finest works elude conventional categorisation, such as the Serenade to Music (1938) for twelve solo singers and orchestra; Flos Campi (1925) for solo viola, small orchestra, and small chorus; and his most important chamber work, in Howes’s view—not purely instrumental

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2 MUSIC complete the first of them until he was thirty-eight years old, the nine symphonies span nearly half a century of his creative life. In his 1964 analysis of the nine, Schwartz found it striking that no two of the symphonies are alike, either in structure or in mood.[91] Commentators have found it useful to consider the nine in three groups of three—early, middle and late.[92]

Opening of Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, 1910

but a song cycle—On Wenlock Edge (1909) with accompaniment for string quartet and piano.[4] In 1955 the authors of The Record Guide, Edward Sackville-West and Desmond Shawe-Taylor, wrote that Vaughan Williams’s music showed an exceptionally strong individual voice: Vaughan Williams’s style is “not remarkable for grace or politeness or inventive colour”, but expresses “a consistent vision in which thought and feeling and their equivalent images in music never fall below a certain high level of natural distinction”. They commented that the composer’s vision is expressed in two main contrasting moods: “the one contemplative and trance-like, the other pugnacious and sinister”. The first mood, generally predominant in the composer’s output, was more popular, as audiences, preferred “the stainedglass beauty of the Tallis Fantasia, the direct melodic appeal of the Serenade to Music, the pastoral poetry of The Lark Ascending, and the grave serenity of the Fifth Symphony”. By contrast, as in the ferocity of the Fourth and Sixth Symphonies and the Concerto for Two Pianos: “in his grimmer moods Vaughan Williams can be as frightening as Sibelius and Bartók".[89]

Vaughan Williams in 1919, by William Rothenstein

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Sea, London and Pastoral Symphonies (1910– 1922)

The first three symphonies, to which Vaughan Williams assigned titles rather than numbers,[n 12] form a sub-group within the nine, having programmatic elements, absent from the later six.[92] A Sea Symphony (1910), the only one of the series to include a part for full choir, differs from most earlier choral symphonies in that the choir sings in all the movements.[4][94] The extent to which it is a true symphony has been debated; in a 2013 study, Alain Frogley describes it as a hybrid work, with elements of symphony, oratorio and cantata.[94] Its sheer length—about eighty minutes—was unprecedented for 2.1 Symphonies an English symphonic work, and within its thoroughly It is as a symphonist that Vaughan Williams is best tonal construction it contains harmonic dissonances that the early works of Stravinsky which were soon known.[4] The composer and academic Elliott Schwartz pre-echo [95] to follow. wrote (1964), “It may be said with truth that Vaughan Williams, Sibelius and Prokofieff are the symphonists A London Symphony (1911–13) which the composer later of this century”.[90] Although Vaughan Williams did not observed might more accurately be called a “symphony by

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Symphonies

a Londoner”,[96] is for the most part not overtly pictorial in its presentation of London. Vaughan Williams insisted that it is “self-expressive, and must stand or fall as 'absolute' music”.[97] There are some references to the urban soundscape: brief impressions of street music, with the sound of the barrel organ mimicked by the orchestra; the characteristic chant of the lavender-seller; the jingle of hansom cabs; and the chimes of Big Ben played by harp and clarinet.[98] But commentators have heard—and the composer never denied or confirmed—some social comment in sinister echoes at the end of the scherzo and an orchestral outburst of pain and despair at the opening of the finale.[99] Schwartz comments that the symphony, in its “unified presentation of widely heterogeneous elements”, is “very much like the city itself”.[100] Vaughan Williams said in his later years that this was his favourite of the symphonies.[n 13] The last of the first group is A Pastoral Symphony (1921). The first three movements are for orchestra alone; a wordless solo soprano voice is added in the finale. Despite the title the symphony draws little on the folk-songs beloved of the composer, and the pastoral landscape evoked is not a tranquil English scene, but the French countryside ravaged by war.[102] Some English musicians who had not fought in the First World War misunderstood the work and heard only the slow tempi and quiet tone, failing to notice the character of a requiem in the music and mistaking the piece for a rustic idyll.[n 14] Kennedy comments that it was not until after the Second World War that “the spectral 'Last Post' in the second movement and the girl’s lamenting voice in the finale” were widely noticed and understood.[103]

9 caused by the deliberate conflict of modality in places, the work is generally serene in character, and was particularly well received for the comfort it gave at a time of all-out war.[108] Neville Cardus later wrote, “The Fifth Symphony contains the most benedictory and consoling music of our time.”[109] With the Sixth Symphony (1948) Vaughan Williams once again confounded expectations. Many had seen the Fifth, composed when he was seventy, as a valedictory work, and the turbulent, troubled Sixth came as a shock. After violent orchestral clashes in the first movement, the obsessive ostinato of the second and the “diabolic” scherzo, the finale perplexed many listeners. Described as “one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken in music”,[110] it is marked pianissimo throughout its 10– 12-minute duration.[n 15]

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Sinfonia antartica, Symphonies 8 and 9 (1952– 57)

The seventh symphony, the Sinfonia antartica (1952), a by-product of the composer’s score for Scott of the Antarctic, has consistently divided critical opinion on whether it can be properly classed as a symphony.[111] Alain Frogley in Grove argues that though the work can make a deep impression on the listener, it is neither a true symphony in the understood sense of the term nor a tone poem and is consequently the least successful of the mature symphonies. The work is in five movements, with wordless vocal lines for female chorus and solo soprano in the first and last movements.[30] In addition to large 2.1.2 Symphonies 4–6 (1935–48) woodwind and percussion sections the score features a [112] The middle three symphonies are purely orchestral, and prominent part for wind machine. generally conventional in form, with sonata form (modi- The Eighth Symphony (1956) in D minor is noticefied in places), specified home keys, and four-movement ably different from its seven predecessors by virtue of structure.[104] The orchestral forces required are not large its brevity and, despite its minor key, its general lightby the standards of the first half of the 20th century, heartedness. The orchestra is smaller than for most of although the Fourth calls for an augmented woodwind the symphonies, with the exception of the percussion section and the Sixth includes a part for tenor saxo- section, which is particularly large, with, as Vaughan phone.[105] The Fourth Symphony (1935) astonished lis- Williams put it, “all the 'phones’ and 'spiels’ known to the teners with its striking dissonance, far removed from the composer”.[113] The work was enthusiastically received at prevailing quiet tone of the previous symphony.[106] The its early performances, and has remained among Vaughan composer firmly contradicted any notions that the work Williams’s most popular works.[113][114] was programmatical in any respect, and Kennedy calls The final symphony, the Ninth, was completed in late attempts to give the work “a meretricious programme 1957 and premiered in April 1958, four months before [...] a poor compliment to its musical vitality and self- the composer’s death. It is scored for a large orchestra, sufficiency”.[107] including three saxophones, a flugelhorn, and an enlarged The Fifth Symphony (1943) was in complete contrast to its predecessor. Vaughan Williams had been working on and off for many years on his operatic version of Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. Fearing—wrongly as it turned out—that the opera would never be completed, Vaughan Williams reworked some of the music already written for it into a new symphony. Despite the internal tensions

percussion section. The mood is more sombre than that of the Eighth; Grove calls its mood “at once heroic and contemplative, defiant and wistfully absorbed”.[30] The work received an ovation at its premiere,[115] but at first the critics were not sure what to make of it, and it took some years for it to be generally ranked alongside its eight predecessors.[116]

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2 MUSIC

Other orchestral music

2.4 Vocal music

Ursula Vaughan Williams wrote of her husband’s love of Grove lists more than thirty works by Vaughan Williams literature, and listed some of his favourite writers and for orchestra or band over and above the symphonies. writings: They include two of his most popular works—the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (1910, revised 1919), From Skelton and Chaucer, Sidney, and The Lark Ascending, originally for violin and piano Spenser, the Authorised Version of the Bible, (1914); orchestrated 1920.[117] Other works that survive the madrigal poets, the anonymous poets, to in the repertoire in Britain are the Norfolk Rhapsody No 1 Shakespeare—inevitably and devotedly—on (1905–06), The Wasps, Aristophanic suite—particularly to Herbert and his contemporaries, Milton, the overture (1909), the English Folk Song Suite (1923) Bunyan, and Shelley, Tennyson, Swinburne, and the Fantasia on Greensleeves (1934).[30] both Rossettis, Whitman, Barnes, Hardy and Vaughan Williams wrote four concertos: for violin Housman.[125] (1925), piano (1926), oboe (1944) and tuba (1954); another concertante piece is his Romance for harmonica, In addition to his love of poetry, Vaughan Williams’s vostrings and piano (1951).[30] None of these works have cal music is inspired by his lifelong belief that the voice rivalled the popularity of the symphonies or the short or- “can be made the medium of the best and deepest human chestral works mentioned above.[n 16] Bartók was among emotion.”[126] the admirers of the Piano Concerto, written for and championed by Harriet Cohen, but it has remained, in the words of the critic Andrew Achenbach, a neglected 2.4.1 Songs masterpiece.[119] Between the mid-1890s and the late 1950s Vaughan In addition to the music for Scott of the Antarctic, Vaughan Williams set more than eighty poems for voice and piWilliams composed incidental music for eleven other ano accompaniment. The earliest to survive is “A Crafilms, from 49th Parallel (1941) to The Vision of William dle Song”, to Coleridge's words, from about 1894.[30] The [30] Blake (1957). songs include many that have entered the repertory, such as “Linden Lea” (1902), “Silent Noon” (1904) and the song cycles Songs of Travel (1905 and 1907) and On Wenlock Edge.[127] To Vaughan Williams the human voice was “the oldest and greatest of musical instruments”.[128] He described his early songs as “more or less simple 2.3 Chamber and instrumental and popular in character”,[129] and the musicologist Sophie Fuller describes this simplicity and popularity as consistent throughout his career.[130] Many composers of By comparison with his output in other genres, Vaughan the late 19th and early 20th centuries wrote sentimental Williams’s music for chamber ensembles and solo in- works for female voice; by contrast, songs by Vaughan struments forms a small part of his oeuvre. Grove Williams’s songs such as “The Vagabond” from Songs of lists twenty-four pieces under the heading “Chamber and Travel, to words by Robert Louis Stevenson, are “a particinstrumental"; three are early, unpublished works.[30] ularly masculine breath of fresh air” (Fuller), “virile openVaughan Williams, like most leading British 20th-century air verses” (Kennedy).[131] Some of Vaughan Williams’s composers, was not drawn to the solo piano and wrote later songs are less well known; Fuller singles out the cylittle for it.[n 17] From his mature years, there sur- cle Three Poems by Walt Whitman, a largely dark work, as vive for standard chamber groupings two string quar- too often overlooked by singers and critics.[132] For some tets (1908–09, revised 1921; and 1943–44), a “phan- of his songs the composer expands the accompaniment to tasy” string quintet (1912), and a sonata for violin and include two or more string instruments in addition to the piano (1954). The first quartet was written soon after piano; they include On Wenlock Edge, and the Chaucer Vaughan Williams’s studies in Paris with Ravel, whose cycle Merciless Beauty (1921), judged by an anonymous influence is strongly evident.[n 18] In 2002 the magazine contemporary critic as “surely among the best of modern Gramophone described the second quartet as a master- English songs”.[132] piece that should be, but is not, part of the international chamber repertory.[121] It is from the same period as the Sixth Symphony, and has something of that work’s sever- 2.4.2 Choral music ity and anguish.[122] The quintet (1912) was written two years after the success of the Tallis Fantasia, with which Despite his agnosticism Vaughan Williams composed it has elements in common, both in terms of instrumen- many works for church performance. His two best known tal layout and the mood of rapt contemplation.[123] The hymn tunes, both from c. 1905, are “Down Ampney” violin sonata has made little impact.[124] to the words “Come Down, O Love Divine”, and "Sine

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Stage works

11 all, of his operas.[138] Another problem was his keenness to encourage amateurs and student groups, which sometimes led to the staging of his operas with less than professional standards.[137] A further factor was the composer’s expressed preference for “slow, long tableaux", which tended to reduce dramatic impact, although he believed them essential, as “music takes a long time to speak— much longer than words by themselves.”[139]

Hugh the Drover, or Love in the Stocks (completed 1919, premiere 1924) has a libretto, by the writer and theatre critic Harold Child, which was described by The Stage as “replete with folksy, Cotswold village archetypes”.[140] In the view of the critic Richard Traubner the piece is a cross between traditional ballad opera and the works of Puccini Statue of Vaughan Williams by William Fawke, Dorking and Ravel, “with rhapsodic results.” The score uses genuine and pastiche folk songs but ends with a passionate Traubner considers has few equals in En[133] nomine" “For All the Saints”. Grove lists a dozen love duet that [141] glish opera. Its first performance was by students at more, composed between 1905 and 1935. The other the Royal College of Music, and the work is rarely staged church works include a Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis by major professional companies.[140] [30] (1925), a Mass (1920–21) and a Te Deum (1928). Vaughan Williams’s choral works for concert perfor- Old King Cole (1923) is a humorous ballet. The score, mance include settings of both secular and religious which makes liberal use of folk-song melodies, was words. The former include Toward the Unknown Region thought by critics to be strikingly modern when first to words by Whitman (composed 1904–06), Five Tudor heard. Kennedy comments that the music “is not a major Portraits, words by John Skelton (1935), and the Shake- work but it is fun.” The piece has not been seen frequently was revived in a student production spearean Serenade to Music (in its alternative version for since its premiere, but[142] at the RCM in 1937. chorus and orchestra, 1938). Choral pieces with religious words include the oratorio Sancta Civitas (1923–25) and the Christmas cantata Hodie (1954). In 1953 the composer said that of his choral works Sancta Civitas was his favourite.[134] The Dona Nobis Pacem, an impassioned anti-war cantata (1936) is a combination of both, with words from Whitman and others juxtaposed with extracts from the Latin mass, anticipating a similar mixture of sacred and secular text in Britten's War Requiem twenty-five years later.[135]

2.5

Stage works

Vaughan Williams was wary of conventional labels; his best known ballet is described on the title page as “a masque for dancing” and only one of his operatic works is categorised by the composer simply as an opera. For some of his theatre pieces that could be classed as operas or ballets, he preferred the terms “masque”, “romantic extravaganza”, “play set to music”, or “morality”.[n 19] In a 2013 survey of Vaughan Williams’s stage works, Eric Saylor writes, “With the possible exception of Tchaikovsky, no composer’s operatic career was less emblematic of his success elsewhere.”[137] Although Vaughan Williams was a regular opera-goer, enthusiastic and knowledgeable about works by operatic masters from Mozart to Wagner and Verdi, his success in the operatic field was at best patchy. There is widespread agreement among commentators that this was partly due to the composer’s poor choice of librettists for some, though not

On Christmas Night (1926), a masque by Adolph Bolm and Vaughan Williams, combines singing, dancing and mime. The story is loosely based on Dickens's A Christmas Carol.[143] The piece was first given in Chicago by Bolm’s company; the London premiere was in 1935. Saylor describes the work as a “dramatic hodgepodge” which has not attracted the interest of later performers.[144] The only work that the composer designated as an opera is the comedy Sir John in Love (1924–28). It is based on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. Folk song is used, though more discreetly than in Hugh the Drover and the score is described by Saylor as “ravishingly tuneful”.[145] Although versions of the play had already been set by Nicolai, Verdi, and Holst, Vaughan Williams’s is distinctive for its greater emphasis on the love music rather than on the robust comedy.[146] In 1931, with the Leith Hill Festival in mind, the composer recast some of the music as a five-section cantata, In Windsor Forest, giving the public “the plums and no cake”, as he put it.[147] The Poisoned Kiss (1927–29, premiered in 1936) is a light comedy. Vaughan Williams knew the Savoy operas well,[148] and his music for this piece was and is widely regarded as in the Sullivan vein.[149] The words, by an inexperienced librettist, were judged to fall far short of Gilbert's standards.[150] Saylor sums up the critical consensus that the work is something between “a frothy romantic comedy [and] a satirical fairy-tale”, and not quite successful in either category.[151]

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RECORDINGS

formed in 1953 on BBC television. Vaughan Williams later recast it a cantata, Epithalamion (1957).[158] The Pilgrim’s Progress (1951), the composer’s last opera, was the culmination of more than forty years’ intermittent work on the theme of Bunyan’s religious allegory. Vaughan Williams had written incidental music for an amateur dramatisation in 1906, and had returned to the theme in 1921 with the one-act The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains (finally incorporated, with amendments, into the 1951 opera). The work has been criticised for a preponderance of slow music and stretches lacking in dramatic action,[159] but some commentators believe the work to be one of Vaughan Williams’s supreme achievements.[30] Summaries of the music vary from “beautiful, if something of a stylistic jumble” (Saylor) to “a synthesis of Vaughan Williams’s stylistic progress over the years, from the pastoral mediation of the 1920s to the angry music of the middle symphonies and eventually the more experimental phase of the Sinfonia antartica in his last decade” (Kennedy).[159][160]

William Blake's engraving of Job and his comforters

3 Recordings Vaughan Williams conducted a handful of recordings for gramophone and radio. His studio recordings are the overture to The Wasps, and the ballet Old King Cole (both made in 1925),[161] Dona Nobis Pacem (1936),[162] and the Fourth Symphony (1937).[161] Live concert tapings include the Serenade to Music,[163] and the Fifth Symphony,[162] recorded in 1951 and 1952, respectively. There is a recording of Vaughan Williams conducting the St Matthew Passion with his Leith Hill Festival forces.[164] In the early days of LP in the 1950s Vaughan Williams was better represented in the record catalogues than most British composers. The Record Guide (1955) contained nine pages of listings of his music on disc, compared with five for Walton, and four apiece for Elgar and Britten.[165]

Job: A Masque for Dancing (1930) was the first-large scale ballet by a modern British composer.[152] Vaughan Williams’s liking for long tableaux, however disadvantageous in his operas, worked to successful effect in this ballet. The work is inspired by William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job (1826). The score is divided into nine sections and an epilogue, presenting dance interpretations of some of Blake’s engravings.[153] The work, choreographed by Ninette de Valois, made a powerful impression at its early stagings, and has been revived by the Royal Ballet several times.[144][154] Kennedy ranks the score as “one of Vaughan Williams’s mightiest achievements”, and notes that it is familiar in concert programmes, having “the stature and cohesion of a All the composer’s major works and many of the minor ones have been recorded.[166] There have been numerous symphony.”[155] complete LP and CD sets of the nine symphonies, beIn Kennedy’s view the one-act Riders to the Sea (1925– ginning with Boult’s Decca cycle of the 1950s, most of 31, premiered 1937) is artistically Vaughan Williams’s which was recorded in the composer’s presence.[167][n 20] most successful opera; Saylor names Sir John in Love for Although rarely staged, the operas have fared well on that distinction, but rates Riders to the Sea as one of the disc. The earliest recording of a Vaughan Williams composer’s finest works in any genre.[156] It is an almost opera was Hugh the Drover, in an abridged version converbatim setting of J. M. Synge's 1902 play of the same ducted by Sargent in 1924.[171] Since the 1960s there name, depicting family tragedy in an Irish fishing village. have been stereophonic recordings of Hugh the Drover, Kennedy describes the score as “organized almost sym- Sir John in Love, Riders to the Sea, The Poisoned Kiss, phonically” with much of the thematic material devel- and The Pilgrim’s Progress.[172] Most of the orchestral oped from the brief prelude. The orchestration is sub- recordings have been by British orchestras and conductle, and foreshadows the ghostly finale of the Sixth Sym- tors, but notable non-British conductors who have made phony; there are also pre-echoes of the Sinfonia antartica recordings of Vaughan Williams’s works include Herbert in the lamenting voices of the women and in the sound of von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski,[173] the sea.[157] and, most frequently, André Previn, who conducted the The Bridal Day (1938–39) is a masque, to a scenario London Symphony Orchestra in the first complete stereo by Ursula, combining voice, mime and dance, first per- cycle of the symphonies, recorded between 1967 and

13 1972.[174] Among the British conductors most closely associated with Vaughan Williams’s music on disc and in concert in the generations after Boult, Sargent and Barbirolli are Vernon Handley, Richard Hickox, Sir Mark Elder and Sir Andrew Davis.[175] Record companies with extensive lists of Vaughan Williams recordings include EMI, Decca, Chandos, Hyperion and Naxos.[166]

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Honours and legacy

Vaughan Williams refused a knighthood at least once, and declined the post of Master of the King’s Music after Elgar’s death.[176] The one state honour he accepted was the Order of Merit in 1935, which confers no prenominal title: he preferred to remain “Dr Vaughan Williams”.[177] His academic and musical honours included an honorary doctorate of music from the University of Oxford (1919); the Cobbett medal for services to chamber music (1930); the gold medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society (1930); the Collard life fellowship of the Worshipful Company of Musicians (1934, in succession to Elgar); an honorary fellowship of Trinity College, Cambridge (1935); the Shakespeare prize of the University of Hamburg (1937); the Albert medal of the Royal Society of Arts (1955); and the Howland memorial prize of Yale University (1954).[2][25] The Royal College of Music commissioned an official portrait of the composer from Sir Gerald Kelly (1952) which hangs in the college. The Manchester Art Gallery has a bronze sculpture of Vaughan Williams by Epstein (1952) and the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) has drawings by Joyce Finzi (1947) and Juliet Pannett (1957 and 1958); versions of a bronze head of the composer by David McFall (1956) are in the NPG and at the entrance to the Music reading room of the British Library.[2][178] There is a statue of Vaughan Williams in Dorking,[179] and a bust in Chelsea Embankment Gardens, near his old house in Cheyne Walk.[180]

Bust of Vaughan Williams by Marcus Cornish, Chelsea

dent: The Life of Vaughan Williams and John Bridcut's The Passions of Vaughan Williams.[183] British audiences were prompted to reappraise the composer. The popularity of his most accessible works, particularly the Tallis Fantasia and The Lark Ascending increased,[n 21] but a wide public also became aware of what a reviewer of Bridcut’s film called “a genius driven by emotion”.[185] Among the 21st-century musicians who have acknowledged Vaughan Williams’s influence on their development are John Adams, PJ Harvey, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Anthony Payne, Wayne Shorter, Neil Tennant and Mark-Anthony Turnage.[186]

In 1994 a group of enthusiasts founded the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society, with the composer’s widow as its president and Roy Douglas and Michael Kennedy as vice presidents. The society has sponsored and encouraged performances of the composer’s works includ- After Vaughan Williams’s death, The Times summed up ing complete symphony cycles and a Vaughan Williams his legacy in a leading article: opera festival. The society has promoted premieres of neglected works, and has its own record label, Albion [H]istorically his achievement was to cut Records.[181] the bonds that from the times of Handel and Composers of the generation after Vaughan Williams Mendelssohn had bound England hand and reacted against his style, which became unfashionable foot to the Continent. He found in the Elizain influential musical circles in the 1960s; diatonic and bethans and folk-song the elements of a native melodic music such as his was neglected in favour of English language that need no longer be spoken atonal and other modernist compositions.[182] In the 21st with a German accent, and from it he forged century this neglect has been reversed. In the fiftieth anhis own idiom. The emancipation he achieved niversary year of his death two contrasting documentary thereby was so complete that the composers of films were released: Tony Palmer's O Thou Transcensucceeding generations like Walton and Brit-

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5 5.1

Notes, references and sources Notes

[1] Vaughan Williams insisted on the traditional English pronunciation of his first name: “Rafe"; Ursula Vaughan Williams said that he was infuriated if people pronounced it in any other way.[1] [2] His siblings were Hervey (1869–1944) and Margaret (Meggie, 1870–1931).[3] [3] Margaret’s father was Josiah Wedgwood III, grandson of the potter; he married his cousin, Caroline Darwin, niece of Charles Darwin.[4]

including Sakari Oramo,[85] and scholars such as Byron Adams,[86] Kennedy,[81] and Hugh Ottaway.[87] [12] Vaughan Williams did not assign numbers to any of his symphonies before No 8, but Nos 4–6 have generally been referred to by number nevertheless.[93] [13] This was in 1951, when the last three symphonies were yet to be written.[101] [14] Peter Warlock commented that the symphony was “like a cow looking over a gate”, though he added, “but after all, it’s a very great work.”[83] and Sir Hugh Allen said the work conjured up “VW rolling over and over in a ploughed field on a wet day”.[103] [15] In 1956 the composer said in a letter to Michael Kennedy that the nearest that words could get to what he intended in the finale were Prospero’s in The Tempest: “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”[67]

[4] One of his aunts thought him a “hopelessly bad” musician, but recognised that “it will simply break his heart if he is told that he is too bad to hope to make anything of it.”[15]

[16] The 2015 concert listings section of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society lists no performances of any of the concertos in Britain during the year, and, internationally, one performance of the Oboe Concerto (in Las Palmas) and one of the Piano Concerto (in Seattle).[118]

[5] Vaughan Williams and Adeline had known each other since childhood. When they became engaged he wrote to his cousin Ralph Wedgwood, “for many years we have been great friends and for about the last three I have known my mind on the matter”.[19]

[17] The composer and musical scholar Christopher Palmer includes Vaughan Williams in the list of major British composers, along with Elgar, Delius, Holst, Walton and Britten, who showed little interest in the solo piano and seldom wrote for it.[120]

[6] Vaughan Williams had studied under distinguished organists, and was given to boasting that he was the only pupil who had completely baffled Sir Walter Parratt, organist of St George’s Chapel, Windsor and Master of the Queen’s Music.[15]

[18] Vaughan Williams was amused by the comment of a friend who correctly detected the French influence, but thought “I must have been having tea with Debussy.”[38]

[7] The fantasia made less of an impression on some lesserknown critics: “G. H.” in Musical News thought the work “of not much musical interest”, and the unnamed reviewer in The Musical Times found it “over-long for concert use”.[45] [8] His students included Ivor Gurney, Constant Lambert, Elizabeth Maconchy, Grace Williams and Gordon Jacob, the last of whom went on to work with his former teacher, transcribing the composer’s barely-legible manuscripts and arranging existing pieces for new instrumental combinations.[49] Later the composer’s other regular helper was Roy Douglas, who worked with Vaughan Williams between 1947 and 1958 and wrote a memoir of working with him.[50] [9] Boult recalled that the symphony “brought many of us straight up against the spectacle of war, and the ghastly possibility of it. A prophet, like other great men, he foresaw the whole thing.”[58] [10] There were no children of the marriage.[25] [11] The word is used repeatedly in discussions of Vaughan Williams by composers such as Herbert Howells,[82] Anthony Payne,[83] and Wilfrid Mellers,[84] conductors

[19] Applied by the composer to, respectively, On Christmas Night and The Bridal Day; The Poisoned Kiss, Riders to the Sea and The Pilgrim’s Progress.[30][136] [20] The Ninth Symphony in what became the Decca complete cycle was recorded by Everest Records;[168] the sessions took place on the morning after the composer’s death.[169] Decca licensed the recording from Everest for inclusion in a CD set of the nine symphonies in 2003.[170] [21] The British radio station Classic FM, which specialises in popular classics, conducted polls of its listeners in 2014 and 2015 in which The Lark Ascending was voted the most popular of all musical works, and the Tallis Fantasia was in the top three.[184]

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[32] Frogley, p. 88 [33] Adams (2013), p. 38 [34] Nichols, p. 67 [35] Vaughan Williams (1964), p. 80

[6] Vaughan Williams (1964) p. 11

[36] Adams (2013), pp. 40–41

[7] Vaughan Williams (1964), p. 13 [37] Cobbe, p. 11 [8] Kennedy (1980), p. 11 [9] Vaughan Williams (1964), p. 24 [10] Kennedy (1980), pp. (1964), pp. 25–27

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[26] Kennedy (1980), p. 44

[52] Kennedy (1980), pp. 412–416

[27] Cobbe, pp. 41–42

[53] Vaughan Williams (1964), pp. 171 and 179

[28] Kennedy (1980), p. 74

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[65] Parry-Jones, Gwyn. “The Inner and Outer Worlds of RVW”, Journal of the RVW Society, July 1995

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[66] Horton, p. 210; and Kennedy (1980) pp. 301–302

[91] Schwartz, p. 17

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