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Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams 1895-1958



Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams 1895-1958
This book is a compilation of letters written by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The letters are arranged chronologically and cover a variety of topics, including his music, personal life, and political views. The letters provide a unique look into the composer's life and work. more details
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  • Provides a unique look into the composer's life and work


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Author Hugh Cobbe
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780199587643
Publication Date 23/08/2010
Publisher Oxford University Press, Usa
Manufacturer Oxford University Press
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This book is a compilation of letters written by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The letters are arranged chronologically and cover a variety of topics, including his music, personal life, and political views. The letters provide a unique look into the composer's life and work.

The book comprises a selection of some 750 letters of the composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, selected from an extant corpus of about 3,300. The letters are arranged chronologically and have been chosen to provide a cumulative pen-picture of the composer in his own words. In general the letters reflect VW's major preoccupations: musical, personal and political. It was not VW's way to discuss his inner creative processes but he does discuss his music, once it had been written: for example there is much to illustrate the process of 'washing the face' of his major pieces before, and after, they had reached the concert platform. There is correspondence with collaborators such as Gilbert Murray, Harold Child and Evelyn Sharpe who provided texts; with his publishers (mainly OUP) about printing scores and parts; with conductors such as Adrian Boult and John Barbirolli about performances. He was in regular correspondence with fellow composers such as Gustav Holst, George Butterworth, Gerald Finzi, Herbert Howells, John Ireland, Alan Bush and Rutland Boughton. There were his pupils: Elizabeth Maconchy and Cedric Thorpe Davie amongst others. A series of close personal friendships is well represented: his Cambridge contemporary and cousin Ralph Wedgwood, Edward Dent, and latterly Michael Kennedy. Above all there are insights on his lifelong devotion to his first wife, Adeline, and his growing friendship with Ursula Wood, who was to become his second wife. In general the book paints a self-portrait of Vaughan Williams not only as a great composer but as a large-minded and public-spirited personality who towered over the British musical world for forty years.

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