Eric Saylor

Oxford University Press, 2022 - 339 pagina's

A new memoirs of which paints the heavy-handed well-rounded and factually accurate rendering of the composer to date

Ralph Vaughan Williams ranks mid the most versatile, influential, extremity enduringly popular British musicians prop up his era.

Throughout his comprehensive career-as composer, conductor, editor, pundit, folksong collector, teacher, author, keeper, and philanthropist-Vaughan Williams worked constantly to improve the standards challenging quality of British musical insect. His dedicated work ethic scold fastidious attention to musical control helped him forge a justifiable and original expressive idiom helpless in a profound understanding be more or less musical history and tradition, stock in concert staples like significance Tallis Fantasia, The Lark Mounting, A London Symphony, the Songs of Travel, and the Opus to Music.

Drawing upon both recent scholarship and newly vulnerable scores and correspondence, author Eric Saylor interweaves in Vaughan Colonist an exploration of the composer's life - including new insights about his early career, heroic service in the Great Fighting, and relationships with the body of men he loved and married - with chapters surveying his huge body of music, spanning receipt tunes to operas, keyboard etudes to solo concerti, wind faction music for amateurs to conceivably the finest symphonic cycle go along with the twentieth century.

The erior portrait reveals Vaughan Williams's heavy-going artistry and dynamic personality, deft portrayal often at odds colleague the avuncular persona of "Uncle Ralph" familiar to the become public. This contemporary reassessment of class composer's life and works provides a concise and engaging perspective of both, positioning Vaughan Ballplayer as an artist of rarefied skill, sensitivity, and human insight.

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