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Article: Classical: The slow task of unlearning Why, despite a precocious start, did it take Ralph Vaughan Williams so long to discover his own voice in his compositions? BAYAN NORTHCOTT finds an explanation in the early chamber music, which has only recently been released
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- The Independent (London, England)
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- December 20, 2002
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Scan a catalogue of all the music Ralph Vaughan Williams is known
to have written, from such childhood attempts of the late 1870s as
The Galoshes of Happienes (sic) to the incomplete cello concerto he
left at his death in 1958, and two impressions stand out. The first
is that, aside from a handful of obsessive note-spinners such as
Milhaud and Martinu, he wrote as copious an output as any 20th-
century composer - something approaching 400 works in all.
The second is that he withheld the majority of his earlier efforts
from publication. And not just the rotten-with-promise teenage stuff,
such as Benjamin Britten's executors have brought forth in such
quantities since his death. In Vaughan ...
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