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Vaughan Williams

Vaughan Williams

by SimonHeffer (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

    $6.62
Synopsis

In the first years of the twentieth century, Ralph Vaughan Williams led an English musical renaissance. Hubert Parry and Edward Elgar, the fathers of English music in the nineteenth century, took their lead from the German masters. Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst took theirs, exceptionally, from the neglected sources of folk song. The result was a distinctive English voice that changed the culture of a nation. After a long struggle to develop his talents, Vaughan Williams established himself as a composer whose music, through his promotion of folk song and editorship of the English Hymnal, made him a household name and caused his work - most famously The Lark Ascending, Greensleeves, the Tallis Fantasia and nine outstanding symphonies - to be loved by generations in Britain and around the world.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 01 Feb 2001
ISBN 10: 0753811243
ISBN 13: 9780753811245
Book Overview: By a celebrated and controversial writer 'A vivid and appealing picture of an irresistibly likeable figure...I enjoyed this little book enormously' Spectator 'An affectionate, accurate and shrewd account of Vaughan Williams's life...the author's astute commentary on it betokens close and knowledgeable acquaintance' Sunday Telegraph 'Informed by a sincere love for the music' The Times 'An admirably modest and rightly enthusiastic introduction to this grand, strange English composer' Mail on Sunday

Author Bio
Simon Heffer was born in 1960 and educated at King Edward VI School, Chelmsford, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he read English. He is now a political columnist with the Daily Mail and has previously been political editor of The Spectator and deputy editor of the Daily Telegraph.