Ralph Vaughan Williams

And All In The Morning
Forrest Green
Quem Pastores Laudavere
Yorkshire Wassail

Timeline

born:
Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, 12 October 1872.
1897
Studied in Berlin with Max Bruch.
1905-1953
Conductor of the Leith Hill Musical Festival.
1906
The English Hymnal rev.1933
1908
Studied in Paris with Maurice Ravel.
1919
Appointed to the Royal College of Music.
1928
The Oxford Book of Carols with Percy Dearmer & Martin Shaw.
1931-34
Symphony No. 4
1938-43
Symphony No.5 (rev. 1951)
1940-41
His first film score: 49th Parallel.
died:
London, 26 August 1958
  

Composer, conductor, organist, music editor and collector of folk music.

I'll go out on a short, sturdy limb and say that R. Vaughan Williams is the greatest contributor to church music in the 20th century. His original pieces and arrangements of British folksongs are some of the most singable and durable hymn tunes in the English language. Vaughan Williams' music has been the staple of virtually every American hymnal for most of the century. In the Episcopal The Hymnal 1982, he is the most sighted composer.

Internet Sites

Books

Vaughan Williams
by James Day
Paperback - 360 pages Rev&Exp edition (August 1998)
Oxford Univ Press
also available in hardcover

Vaughan Williams : A Life in Photographs
by Jerrold Northrop Moore
Hardcover - 121 pages (December 1992)
Clarendon Press

Vaughan Williams Studies
by Alain Frogley (Editor)
Hardcover (December 1996)
Cambridge Univ Press

A Catalogue of the Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams
by Michael Kennedy
Hardcover 2nd edition (November 1996)
Oxford Univ Press