Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) is one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Drawing on the influences of English folk song and Tudor polyphony, Ralph succeeded at reviving British ...

The Lark Ascending was inspired by a poem of the same name written by George Meredith, which tells the tale of a skylark singing an impossibly beautiful, almost heavenly, song. Vaughan Williams ...

Vaughan Williams was a collector of folk songs. He travelled all over England writing down songs sung to him by ordinary people. He 'saved' over 800 songs from extinction and many of these tunes ...

There’s a new No. 1 in the Classic FM Hall of Fame – and it’s by Vaughan Williams ...

The usual setting is by Ralph Vaughan Williams, who included it in The English ... music and for this hymn arranged the tune of a French song from the 17th century, Jésus-Christ s’habille ...

The ashes of Ralph Vaughan Williams, eminent British composer, and his second wife Ursula are buried in ... He became the leading British composer of his generation, writing songs, instrumental works, ...

A Small Garden of Pious and Godly Songs by Irish bishop Luke Wadding. The melody was collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams in the early 20th century, and Vaughan Williams included “Sussex Carol ...

Ralph McTell was born Ralph May, on December 3, 1944, in Farnborough in Kent. Named after another musical Ralph – his father worked as a gardener for the composer (Ralph) Vaughan Williams ...