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Article: A decent man and a brilliant composer; Marathon man ... Vaughan Williams was still working at the age of 85.
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 6, 2008
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Byline: david mellor
50th anniversary of Vaughan Williamss death
There are several important musicalanniversariesthisyear: Puccinis 150th, and the centenaries of the deathofRimskyKorsakov and the birth of Messiaen to name but three. But one above allothersshouldbecelebrated by lovers of English music. Ralph Vaughan Williams died 50 years agothis coming August, aged 85, but still very much in harness, with a musicalnativity play, The First Nowell, almost completed.
Vaughan Williams was a visionary whose music at its finest, as in the TallisFantasia or the Fifth Symphony,has a rare spirituality.Unlike Elgar, who wasmost influenced ...