Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)Biography

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song. He was born in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, where his father, the Rev. Arthur Vaughan Williams, was vicar. Following his father’s death in 1875 he was taken by his mother, Margaret Susan Wedgwood (1843-1937), the great-granddaughter of the potter Josiah Wedgwood, to live with her family at Leith Hill Place, the Wedgwood family home in the North Downs. He was also related to the Darwins, Charles Darwin being a great-uncle.

As a student he had studied piano and the violin. After attending Charterhouse School he studied at the Royal College of Music under Charles Villiers Stanford where he met and made friends with Gustav Theodore Holst. He read history and music at Trinity College, Cambridge where his friends and contemporaries included the philosophers G. E. Moore and Bertrand Russell. He then returned to the RCM and studied composition with Hubert Parry, who also became a close friend.

Vaughan Williams’s composing developed slowly and it was not until he was 30 that the song “Linden Lea” became his first publication. He mixed composition with conducting, lecturing and editing other music, notably that of Henry Purcell and the English Hymnal. He had further lessons with Max Bruch in Berlin in 1897 and later a big step forward in his orchestral style occurred when he studied in Paris with Maurice Ravel.

He died in 1958 and is buried in Westminster Abbey.

Alleluia Sing To Jesus
Hymn / 87 87 D / Ascension Day / Corpus Christi / Easter Sunday / Easter Vigil / General / Hyfrydol / Hymns For Easter / Lower Key / Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) / Rowland Huw Pritchard (1811 - 1887) / Transfiguration of the Lord (Years A,B,C) / William Chatterton Dix (1837-1898) / Year A Advent 1 / Year A All Saints' Day / Year A Easter 3 / Year A Easter 6 / Year A Easter 7 / Year A Epiphany 6 / Year A Epiphany Transfiguration Sunday, Next Before Lent / Year A Feast of Christ The King / Year A Proper 13, Ordinary 18, Trinity 8 / Year A Proper 20, Ordinary 25, Trinity 16 / Year A Proper 9, Ordinary 14, Trinity 5, 6th Sunday after Penecost / Year A Trinity Sunday / Year B Easter 6 / Year B Easter 7 / Year B Epiphany 2 / Year B Epiphany Transfiguration Sunday, Next Before Lent / Year B Feast of Christ The King / Year B Proper 10, Ordinary 15, Trinity 6 / Year B Proper 13, Ordinary 18, Trinity 9 / Year B Proper 14, Ordinary 19, Trinity 10 / Year B Proper 15, Ordinary 20, Trinity 11 / Year B Proper 16, Ordinary 21, Trinity 12 / Year B Proper 23, Ordinary 28, Trinity 19 / Year B Proper 24, Ordinary 29, Trinity 20 / Year B Proper 25, Ordinary 30, Trinity 21, Last After Trinity / Year B Proper 26, Ordinary 31, Fourth Sunday Before Advent / Year B Proper 27, Ordinary 32, Third Sunday Before Advent / Year C All Saints' Day / Year C Easter 4 / Year C Easter 7 - Seventh Sunday of Easter / Year C Epiphany Transfiguration Sunday, Sunday Next Before Lent / Year C Feast Of Christ The King / Year C Proper 19, Ordinary 24, Trinity 23 / Year C Proper 22, Ordinary 27, Trinity 16 / Year C Proper 23, Ordinary 28, Trinity 17

Alleluia Sing To Jesus (Hyfrydol, Organ and Trumpet Descant, 4 Verses)

Alleluia Sing To Jesus : Recording Tune: Hyfrydol, composed by Rowland Huw Pritchard (1811-1887) arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872

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All Creatures Of Our God And King
Hymn / 88 44 88 and Alleluias / Anonymous / Ascension Day / Easter Vigil / Geistliche Kirchengesang / General / Harvest Festival / Lasst Uns Erfreuen / Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) / St Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) / Thanksgiving Day Canada / William Henry Draper (1855-1933) / Year A Christmas 1 / Year A Easter 2 / Year A Holy Name Of Jesus Or Naming And Circumcision Of Jesus / Year A Proper 17, Ordinary 22, Trinity 12, Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost / Year A Proper 18, Ordinary 23, Trinity 13 / Year A Proper 19, Ordinary 24, Trinity 14 / Year A Proper 22, Ordinary 27, Trinity 17 / Year A Proper 29, Ordinary 34, Trinity 24 / Year A Thanksgiving Day USA / Year A Trinity Sunday / Year B Christmas 1 / Year B Easter 6 / Year B Epiphany 5 / Year B Holy Name Of Jesus Or Naming And Circumcision Of Jesus / Year B Lent 2 / Year B Lent 3 / Year B Pentecost, Whit Sunday / Year B Proper 14, Ordinary 19, Trinity 10 / Year B Proper 19, Ordinary 24, Trinity 15 / Year B Proper 24, Ordinary 29, Trinity 20 / Year B Thanksgiving Day USA / Year B Trinity Sunday / Year C Christmas 1 / Year C Easter 5 / Year C Easter 7 - Seventh Sunday of Easter / Year C Epiphany 2 / Year C Epiphany 7 / Year C Proper 13, Ordinary 18, Trinity 7 / Year C Proper 18, Ordinary 23, Trinity 12 / Year C Proper 25, Ordinary 30, Trinity 19 / Year C Thanksgiving Day USA

All Creatures Of Our God And King (Lasst Uns Erfreuen, Organ, 7 Verses)

All Creatures Of Our God And King : About This well-loved hymn, a rousing proclamation of God’s many and diverse

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