Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal compositions, and orchestral works, including nine symphonies written over a period of more than sixty years. Influenced by Tudor music and English folk song, his compositions contributed to the development of a distinctively English style of classical music in the early 20th century. Vaughan Williams was born into a well-to-do family w

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5 total works indexed

1. The PHQ-9

   · 2001 · cited 38,081x

2. A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder

   · 2006 · cited 27,689x

3. Learning representations by back-propagating errors

   · 1986 · cited 23,498x

4. QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials

   · 2009 · cited 22,457x

5. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

   · 2003 · cited 20,850x

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Quotes

• “The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.”
• “Art for art's sake has never flourished in England. We are often called inartistic because our art is unconscious. Our drama and poetry, like our laws and our constitution, have evolved by accident while we thought we were doing something else, and so it will be with music. The composer must not shut himself up and think about art, he must live with his fellows and make his art an expression of the whole life of the community – if we seek for art we shall not find it.”
• “Before going any further may we take it that the object of art is to obtain a partial revelation of that which is beyond human senses and human faculties – of that, in fact, which is spiritual? And that the means which we employ to induce this revelation are those very senses and faculties themselves?”
• “The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.”
• “The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.”
• “I don't know whether I like it, but it's what I meant.”

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Key dates

Born

12 October 1872

Died

26 August 1958

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Ralph

Family name

Williams

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Down Ampney

Place of death

London

Occupation

writer

Educated at

Charterhouse School

Employer

Birkbeck, University of London

Languages spoken

English language

Notable work

A London Symphony

Student of

Charles Wood

Genre

symphony

Instrument

organ

Record label

His Master's Voice

Conflict

World War I

Military branch

British Army

Official website

rvwsociety.com

Image

Ralph Vaughan Williams 1913.jpeg

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