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Article: Universal englishman A NEW FILM ABOUT VAUGHAN WILLIAMS REVEALS HIM AS ONE OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS, WRITES HIS BIOGRAPHER MICHAEL KENNEDY
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- December 30, 2007
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Within the space of 12 months between September 1957 and August
1958, the world of music lost two of the great symphonists of the
20th century, Jean Sibelius and Ralph Vaughan Williams,
respectively. They admired each other and, after their deaths, they
shared a period of critical and academic disdain from which they
have now emerged with reputations enhanced. Whereas the Finn was
virtually silent during the last 30 years of his life, the
Englishman wrote three symphonies in his final five years and was
working on an opera when he died, a few weeks short of his 86th
birthday.
It has taken until now for a fundamentally misguided view of
Vaughan Williams's work to be corrected. He has been ...