Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1895-1958

ISBN 10: 0199257973 / ISBN 13: 9780199257973

Published by OUP Oxford, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1895-1958
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199257973
• ISBN 13: 9780199257973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

This selection of 750 of Ralph Vaughan Williams' letters, introduced and annotated, provides insights on his early development, his own music and his views on the music of others, his political attitudes, especially to the two world wars, his close personal friendships, and his marriages.

About the Author

Hugh Cobbe joined the British Museum Department of Manuscripts in 1967, where he was a curator of manuscript music and maps. After the department passed to the British Library, he was in due course Head of Publications in the Library for seven years before being appointed Head of Music Collections in 1985, a post which he held until 2001. He was then made Head of British Collections until his retirement. He was for 16 years a Trustee of the Britten-Pears Foundation and was President of the Royal Musical Association 2002-2005. He is Deputy Chairman of the R.V.W. Trust and a Director of the Vaughan Williams Estate. He was appointed OBE in 2003 for "services to libraries."