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Vaughan Williams, Ralph

Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872–1958),
English composer. Vaughan Williams's interest in placing his work in an English musical tradition traced particularly to the 16th century encouraged a lifelong engagement with Shakespeare. He set lyrics from the plays throughout his career (some, such as ‘Orpheus with his lute’, 1901, 1925, more than once), composed incidental music for Richard II and 1 Henry IV (1913), and dared to take on Verdi by writing his own operatic treatment of The Merry Wives of Windsor, Sir John in Love (1924–8). Appropriately, one of his last film scores was for The England of Elizabeth (1955).

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