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Fantasia On Greensleeves by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Artist Biography For Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams OM 1872–1958 Was An Influential English Composer. Vaughan Williams Was Born On 12th October 1872 In Down Ampney A Village In The Cotswolds. After Attending Charterhouse School And Trinity College Cambridge He Became A Student At The Royal College Of Music He Later Studied With Max Bruch In Berlin And Maurice Ravel In Paris. He Served As A Lieutenant In World War I Having Volunteered For The Field Ambulance Service The Appalling Carnage Affected Him Deeply As Did The Deaths Of Close Friends Such As George Butterworth. He Wrote Nine Symphonies Between 1910 And 1958 As Well As Numerous Other Works Including Chamber Music Opera Choral Music And Film Scores. He Was Also One Of The First Serious Collectors Of English Folk Music And Served As President Of The English Folk Dance And Song Society EFDSS . The Society's Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Is Named For Him. Vaughan Williams Died On 26th August 1958 And His Ashes Are Interred In Westminster Abbey.

Frogtoon Music - Song Info: Fantasia on Greensleeves

This Is England's Classic Folk Song Of All Time & That Will Never Change. & Green Fields Cut By Hedgerows As Old As This Track Almost In The Same League As The " The Lark...............Conjuring Up In One's Mind The Open Countryside Of Ralph's Age & Magnificents Unbroken Through All Time A Romantics Song.

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