Vaughan Williams and His World
Byron Adams, "Vaughan Williams and His World "
English | ISBN: 0226830454 | 2023 | 345 pages | PDF | 6 MB
English | ISBN: 0226830454 | 2023 | 345 pages | PDF | 6 MB
A biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) was one of the most innovative and creative figures in twentieth-century music, whose symphonies stand alongside those of Sibelius, Nielsen, Shostakovich, and Roussel. After his death, shifting priorities in the music world led to a period of critical neglect. What could not have been foreseen is that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, a handful of Vaughan Williams’s scores would attain immense popularity worldwide. Yet the present renown of these pieces has led to misapprehension about the nature of Vaughan Williams’s cultural nationalism and a distorted view of his international cultural and musical significance.
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