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. Vaughan Williams and His World traces the
composer’s stylistic and aesthetic development in a broadly
chronological fashion, reappraising Vaughan Williams’s music
composed during and after the Second World War and affirming his
status as an artist whose leftist political convictions pervaded
his life and music. This volume reclaims Vaughan Williams’s
deeply held progressive ethical and democratic convictions while
celebrating his achievements as a composer.
General
Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
The Bard Music Festival |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Editors: |
Byron Adams
• Daniel M. Grimley
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-83044-5 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-226-83044-6 |
Barcode: |
9780226830445 |
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