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Vaughan Williams (Paperback, Main)
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Vaughan Williams (Paperback, Main)
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A tweedy purveyor of folklore; too many larks ascending and too
much Linden Lea: no composer's work has ever been more cruelly
stereotyped than that of Ralph Vaughan Williams. The truth could
hardly have been more different: that folksy feel masked the
highest sophistication, that countrified air the most audacious
experimentation. If, unlike his Germanizing contemporary Elgar,
Vaughan Williams did indeed open the way to a distinctively English
Music, his was an Englishness which owed nothing to
narrow-mindedness or lack of artistic enterprise. Fifty years after
his death in 1958, Vaughan Williams' reputation is greater than
ever before and there is a resurgence of interest in his music.
Re-issued to coincide with this anniversary, Simon Heffer's
perceptive book lends weight to the increasingly compelling case
for Vaughan Williams' recognition as the most important English
composer of the twentieth century. 'A vivid and appealing picture
of an irresistibly likeable figure ... I enjoyed this little book
enormously.'Spectator 'An affectionate, accurate and shrewd account
of Vaughan Williams' life ... the author's astute commentary on it
betokens close and knowledgeable acquaintance.' Sunday Telegraph
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