Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams OMwas 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth12 October 1872
Ralph Vaughan Williams quotes about
english-composer
I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.
english-composer
No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
unsaid duty left
The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
disappointment world next
But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
behinds
Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.