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Vaughan Williams was the musical editor [17] of the English Hymnal of 1906, and the co-editor with Martin Shaw of Songs of Praise of 1925 and the Oxford Book of Carols of 1928, all in collaboration with Percy Dearmer. In addition to arranging many pre-existing hymn tunes and creating hymn tunes based on folk songs, he wrote several original ...
Although Vaughan Williams did not complete the first of them until he was thirty-eight years old, the nine symphonies span nearly half a century of his creative life. In his 1964 analysis of the nine, Schwartz found it striking that no two of the symphonies are alike, either in structure or in mood. [ 93 ]
Vaughan Williams wrote nine symphonies, no two of which are similar. Each displays its own unique mood. His first was A Sea Symphony written between 1903 and 1909 in which he explores the ‘deep waters’ of Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”.
All nine of Vaughan Williams's symphonies as uploaded to You Tube but on one comprehensive page.
Vaughan Williams symphonies ranked: author Rebecca Franks shares her personal ranking of all nine masterpieces by the great British composer.
How wrong they were: Vaughan Williams would live another fifteen years and write four more symphonies. After the War, “Uncle Ralph”, or just “The Uncle”, as he was known to his family and friends, was composing his Sixth Symphony .
Vaughan Williams did not number his first three symphonies, except by implication when he produced the Symphony No. 4. He is a major symphonist, and none of his symphonies are musically alike. Each of the nine takes a different approach to the form and creates its own world.
