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Name: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Birth Date: October 12, 1872
Death Date: August 26, 1958
Place of Birth: Ampney, Gloucestershire, England
Place of Death: London, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: composer

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The English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) was a proponent of nationalism in music and was active in reviving the English folk song. The son of a clergyman, Ralph Vaughan Williams was born at Down Ampney in Gloucestershire on Oct. 12,...


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Ralph Vaughan Williams ( 1872-10-12 – 1958-08-26 ) was a British composer and folksong-collector who, in the early 20th century, played a key part in the forming of a distinctively national style of English classical music. Sourced The duty of the...


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Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM (October 12, 1872 – August 26, 1958) was an influential English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also an important collector of English folk music and...


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Composer Vaughan Williams' widow dies
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Ursula Vaughan Williams, who wrote librettos for her composer husband and produced his biography, has died at age 96.She died Tuesday in London, Gwen Knighton of the English Folk Dance and Song Society said Thursday. Vaughan Williams, who was president of the society, had been...
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Ernst Ludwig EhrlichGENEVA (AP) — Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich, a Jewish religious philosopher who escaped the Nazis and later helped bridge the gap between Christians and Jews, has died. He was 86.Ehrlich died Sunday at his home in Riehen, according to the family notice in Swiss...
 


 

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