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Ralph Vaughan Williams Biography

Ralph Vaughan Williams OM (/reɪf vɔːn/ ( listen);[n 1] 12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over sixty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century.

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There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic experiences. I had the same experience when I first heard an English folksong, when I first saw Michelangelo's Day and Night, when I suddenly came upon Stonehenge or had my first sight of New York City - the intuition that I had been there already.

Artistic, English, Experience, New York, Night, Sight

I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

Difficult, Dog, Learnt, Study, Trying

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

Mean, Ordered, Realities, Reality, Sound

Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues.

Association, Close, Musical, Tunes, Two, Years

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.

Art, Expression, Forms, Musical, Take

Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered.

Cut, Cutting, Discipline, Ideas, Pupils, Teacher

The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

Opera, Talking, Tunes

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

Disappointment, Disappointments, Music, Striving, World

It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

Man, Men, Music, People, Piece, Writing

The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.

Future, Generations, Long, Prophets, Soul

Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?

Church, Concert, Enter, Inheritance, Should

Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.

Ahead, Bach, Beethoven, Behinds, Times

It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

Looks, Right, Sound, Sounds, Wrong

There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.

Atheist, Good, Mass, Reason Why, Writing