Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over
Vaughan Williams c. 1920
Leith Hill Place, Surrey, Vaughan Williams's childhood home
Hubert Parry, Vaughan Williams's first composition teacher at the Royal College of Music
Charles Villiers Stanford, Vaughan Williams's second composition teacher at the RCM
Ursula Vaughan Williams
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Joan Ursula Penton Vaughan Williams was an English poet and author, and biographer of her second husband, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
…upsetting the family. His views on religion did not affect his love of the Authorised Version of the Bible, the beauty of which, in the words of his widow Ursula Vaughan Williams in her 1964 biography of the composer, remained "one of his essential companions through life." In this, as in many other things in his life, he was…
Ursula and Ralph Vaughan Williams on their wedding day in 1953