Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM (October 12, 1872 – August 26, 1958) was an influential British composer. He was a student at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College, Cambridge and served as a lieutenant in World War I. He wrote nine symphonies between 1910 and 1958 as well as numerous other works including chamber music, opera, choral music and film scores.

Selected compositions

See also :Category:Compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

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• Linden Lea, song (1901)
• Songs of Travel (1904)
• In the Fen Country for orchestra (1904)
• Toward the Unknown Region, song for chorus and orchestra, setting of Walt Whitman (1906)
• String Quartet No. 1 in G minor (1908)
• On Wenlock Edge, song cycle for tenor, piano and string quartet (1909)
• A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1) — choral symphony on texts by Whitman (1903-1909)
• The Wasps, Aristophanic suite (1909)
• Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (1910)
• Five Mystical Songs for baritone, chorus and orchestra, settings of George Herbert (1911)
• Phantasy Quintet for 2 violins, 2 violas and cello (1912)
• A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2) (1913)
• The Lark Ascending for violin and orchestra (1914)
• Hugh the Drover or Love in the Stocks, opera (1910-20)
• Three preludes on Welsh hymn tunes, for organ (1956)
• A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3) (1921)
• Mass in G minor for unaccompanied choir (1922)
• English Folk Songs Suite for brass band (1923)
• Three Shakespeare songs (1925)
• Flos Campi for viola and orchestra (1925)
• Concerto Accademico for violin and orchestra (1924-25)
• Sancta Civitas (The Holy City) oratorio, text mainly from the Book of Revelation (1923-25)
• Sir John in Love, opera (1924-28), from which comes an arrangement by Ralph Greaves of Fantasia on Greensleeves
• Te Deum in G (1928)
• Job, a masque for dancing (1930)
• Piano Concerto in C (1926-31)
• Symphony No. 4 in F minor (1931-34)
• Five Tudor Portraits (1935)
• Dona nobis pacem, text by Walt Whitman (1936)
• Suite for Viola and Small Orchestra (1936-38)
• Serenade to Music for sixteen solo voices and orchestra, a setting of Shakespeare (1938)
• Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus (1939)
• Flourish for Wind Band (1939)
• Symphony No. 5 in D (1938-43)
• String Quartet No. 2 in A minor (1942-44)
• Concerto in A minor for oboe and strings (1944)
• Symphony No. 6 in E minor (1946-47)
• Romance in D flat for harmonica and orchestra (1951) written for Larry Adler
• Sinfonia Antartica (Symphony No. 7) (1949-52) — based on his music for the film Scott of the Antarctic
• The Pilgrim's Progress, a morality (1906-52)
• Concerto in F minor for bass tuba and orchestra (1954)
• Symphony No. 8 in D minor (1953-55)
• Symphony No. 9 in E minor (1956-57)
• Ten Blake songs (1957)