Vaughan Williams A Life in Photographs

by Moore, Jerrold Northrop; Vaughan Williams, Ursula

• ISBN13: 9780198162964
• ISBN10: 0198162960
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-12-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Vaughan Williams was one of the most significant English composers of this century. Much from his prodigious output has entered the standard repertoire, and he is well-known for a number of major works: the Tallis Fantasia, Serenade to Music, and the Fifth Symphony, to mention only three. Here is an entirely novel view of Vaughan Williams, his music, and his life. Using techniques originated in his Elgar: A Life in Photographs, Jerrold Northrop Moore has drawn photographs from family albums (many hitherto unpublished), from the great photographic artists of the earlier twentiethcentury, and from newspaper and magazine files to build a fascinating illustrated portrait of the composer. The visual images are set with captions, many of them quotations from Ursula Vaughan Williams's unique biography, RVW. Each layout has been carefully built up to set a scene, establish anemphasis, and often to cast lines of influence over many years in a composer's life. Jerrold Northrop Moore's work has had the benefit of close consultation with the composer's widow, who has written a preface.

Table of Contents

Ursula Vaughan Williams

Preface

The pictoral biography

Acknowledgements

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