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Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) (based on a work from 1956)

David McFall (1919–1988)

National Portrait Gallery, London

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)

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Vaughan Williams studied with Parry at the Royal College of Music, with Brüch in Berlin and Ravel in Paris. He was a leading figure, with Holst, in the folk to song revival and shifted the course of English to language hymnody with his 'English Hymnal' of 1906. Teacher of Composition at the Royal College of Music from 1919 to 1939, he established a native school of music based on choral and ballad traditions. He composed nine symphonies, operas, ballets, chamber music, and secular and religious vocal music. Notable works include 'A Sea Symphony', 1910, based on Walt Whitman's poems, 'A London Symphony', 1914, and 'The Lark Ascending', composed between 1914 and 1920. His score for the film 'Scott of the Antarctic' became the 'Sinfonia Antarctica', 1952.

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Title

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)

Date

1958

Medium

bronze

Measurements

H 31.8 x W (?) x D (?) cm

Accession number

4088

Acquisition method

purchased, 1958

Work type

Bust

Inscription description

incised

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David McFall

1919–1988

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