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Über den Autor / die Autorin
Ralph Vaughan Williams, born in Gloucestershire on 12 October 1872, read History at Cambridge and went to the Royal College of Music where his teachers were Parry, Wood, and Stanford.
Vaughan Williams believed in the value of music education and wrote practical competition pieces, serviceable church music, and with the 49th Parallel (1940-41) he found a new outlet in writing for film. His profoundly disturbing Symphony No.6 (1948) received international acclaim with more than a hundred performances in a little over two years. His great sensitivity to the 20th-century human condition, his flexibility in writing for all levels of music making, and his unquestionably great imagination combine to make him one of the key figures in 20th century music.
Ralph Vaughan Williams had a long association with Oxford University Press; over 200 publications are available in the Oxford catalogue.
Zusammenfassung
Marking the first publication of an early work for chamber orchestra, this study score presents Vaughan Williams's The Solent, composed in 1903. The score has been edited by James Francis Brown and includes an introduction by the editor.
Zusatztext
It's an extraordinarily assured and evocative 11-minute canvas containing a singularly haunting main idea for principal clarinet which RVW subsequently salvages for use in both the first movement of A Sea Symphony and, towards the end of his life, the second movement of the Ninth Symphony.
