Name: Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872- 1958)
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Birthday: 1872 65438+ 10/2.
Ralph Vaughan Williams is an English composer, writer and conductor. He was born in Don Anpney, Gloucestershire, England, and his father was a local parish priest. At the age of six, Williams studied music under the guidance of menstruation and began to learn violin at the age of seven. While studying at Chatterhouse, he was a violinist in the school band. After he entered Trinity School in Cambridge, he began to learn composition. /kloc-in the summer of 0/890, Vaughan Williams came to Munich, where he listened to Wagner's musical Valkyria, thus strengthening his long-cherished wish to be a composer. After returning to China, Vaughan Williams entered the Royal Conservatory of Music to study harmony and composition. 1897 came to Berlin to learn from M. bruch, 1909 went to Paris to consult Ravel. At school, he first tried to write some songs, and soon devoted himself to the creation of large-scale music.
Vaughan Williams has created a large number of novels, poems and literary works in his career of music creation for more than 50 years. His three Norfolk Rhapsodies are based on folk themes. Tallis Fantasia is based on 1505, a 6th century English religious musician Thomas Tallis (t.tallis,/kloc-0? - 1585); He also wrote many operas, including Cowboy Hoyo, Sir John in Love, and Knight Running to the Sea. His moral drama of the same name based on the novel Pilgrim's Progress by the British writer J Bunyan (1628- 1688) is also famous. Vaughan Williams' greatest achievement lies in his nine symphonies, the most famous of which are London Symphony (No.2), Pastoral Symphony (No.3) and Symphony in D Major (No.5). Vaughan Williams also wrote many chamber music, mass, concertos and some movie music, on which his Antarctic Symphony No.7 was based.
Vaughan Williams is always committed to the popularization of music. The English hymns edited by him and holst had a great influence, with a print run of 5 million copies at the 50th anniversary of publication. He also personally participated in the preparation of the traditional performance competition jointly organized by the English country chorus and instrumental musicians, participated in the performance, and composed music for the competition (Fantasia with the theme of tallis premiered in this competition). He believes that this kind of occasion is most suitable for spreading professional music creation with high artistry, and it is most convenient to instill pure music art in folk music life.
1On August 26th, 958, Vaughan Williams' Symphony in E minor (No.9) was scheduled to be recorded in London Philharmonic Orchestra in the morning, but on the same morning, the 86-year-old composer suddenly died peacefully in his apartment in London.
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