Notes
Note for: James Denning, UNKNOWN - Index
Occupation:
Place: Vicar
Notes
Note for: George Augustus Butler, 30 MAR 1838 - 30 JAN 1912 Index
Occupation:
Date: 1881
Place: Interest Of Money
Individual note:
Dwelling:Ivy Lodge Dereham Rd
Census Place:Heigham, Norfolk, England
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ge 43
MarrAgeSexBirthplace
George A. BUTLERM43 MLodiana Bengal B S, East Indies
Rel:Head
Occ:Interest Of Money
Charlotte R. BUTLERM32 FBalsal, Warwick, England
Rel:Wife
Philip L.A. BUTLER 7 MWorcester, Worcester, England
Rel:Son
Cyril BUTLER 1 MNorwich, Norfolk, England
Rel:Son
Anna L. HARDINGU44 FPeckham, Surrey, England
Rel:Lodger
Occ:Allowance From Relatives
Elizabeth HARDINGU41 FPeckham, Surrey, England
Rel:Lodger
Occ:Interest Of Money
George P. HARDINGU29 MBanbury, Cheshire, England
Rel:Lodger
Occ:Commercial Traveller Books
Notes
Note for: Daniel Corrie Walker, ABT 1837 - Index
Occupation:
Place: Royal Engineers Bengal Army
Notes
Note for: Gerald Duckworth, 1870 - 1937 Index
Occupation:
Place: Publisher
Individual note:
born 2 months after father's death
Notes
Note for: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 12 OCT 1872 - 26 AUG 1958 Index
Occupation:
Place: Composer
Individual note:
1872 .. Born on October 12th at Down Ampney, Gloucestershire
1890 .. Enters the Royal College of Music as a student
1892 .. Enters Trinity College, Cambridge.
1897 .. Marries Adeline Fisher on 9th October. Studied with Max Bruch in B
erlin
1899 .. Passes Doctor of Music examination, awarded degree in May 1901
1903 .. Start to collect folksongs in an effort to preserve them
1904 .. Starts work editing the English Hymnal
1908 .. Studies with Maurice Ravel in Paris to "acquire some French Polis
h"
1910 .. "The Sea" Symphony (No.1) completed, first performance of the Tall
is Fantasia
1914 .. Finishes "London" Symphony (No.2), outbreak of war : enlists in Fi
eld Medical Corps.
1916 .. Posted to France and then Greece, close friend George Butterwor
th killed in action
1917 .. Commissioned as a Lieutenant, and posted back to France
1919 .. Demobilised and appointed Professor of Composition at R.C.M in Oxf
ord
1922 .. Completes Third Symphony, "Pastoral". First visit to America
1925 .. Flos Campi Suite and Concerto Accademico completed
1930 .. Completes Job - A Masque for Dancing
1933 .. First performance of Piano Concerto, many consider it his finest w
ork so far
1934 .. Death of his close friend Gustav Holst
1935 .. Finishes Symphony No.4, created Order of Merit
1938 .. Serenade to Music composed in honour of Sir Henry Wood's jubilee
1939 .. Outbreak of war, devotes himself to Film Music, war work, lecturi
ng and writing
1943 .. Finishes the acclaimed Fifth Symphony
1944 .. Writes Oboe Concerto
1948 .. Completes his great nihilistic Sixth Symphony
1951 .. Wife Adeline dies on May 10th
1952 .. Writes Romance for Harmonica after meeting Larry Adler
1953 .. Uses parts of his film score to create Sinfonia Antarctica (No.7
). Marries Ursula Wood
1954 .. Gives many lectures across the USA
1956 .. Finishes Symphony No.8
1958 .. Finishes Symphony No.9. Dies in his sleep on August 26th, from a h
eart attack.
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RALPH VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS (1873-1958) was perhaps one of the greatest Engli
sh composers. He was born in Gloucestershire and attended Charterhous
e. A fuller biography will be provided in time.
Dwelling:Leith Hill Place
Census Place:Wotton, Surrey, England
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ge 21
MarrAgeSexBirthplace
Caroline S. WEDGWOODW80 FShrewsbury, Shropshire, England
Rel:Head
Occ:Living On Income Derived From Land Dividends
Margaret S.V. WILLIAMSW37 FShrewsbury, Shropshire, England
Rel:Daur
Occ:Living On Income Derived From Land Dividends
Margaret S.V. WILLIAMS 10 FDown Ampney, Gloucester, England
Rel:Grand Daur
Occ:Scholar
Ralph V. WILLIAMS 8 MDown Ampney, Gloucester, England
Rel:Grand Son
Occ:Scholar
Elisa VITALU21 FAlsace (F)
Rel:Governess
Occ:Governess (T) (Priv)
John PHILLIPSU42 MShrewsbury, Shropshire, England
Rel:Serv
Occ:Butler
Alice JONESU21 FLlanfyllin, Montgomery, Wales
Rel:Serv
Occ:Cook (Dom)
Anna LONGHURSTU32 FWotton, Surrey, England
Rel:Serv
Occ:Ladysmaid
Sarah WAGERU34 FTetbury, Gloucester, England
Rel:Serv
Occ:Nurse (Dom)
Esther SMITHU24 FLeas Hill Walford, Hereford, England
Rel:Serv
Occ:Housemaid
Sarah SASSONU19 FCranleigh, Surrey, England
Rel:Serv
Occ:Kitchenmaid
English composer. He studied with Parry, Wood and Stanford at the RCM a
nd Cambridge, then had further lessons with Bruch in Berlin (1897) and Rav
el in Paris (1908). It was only after this that he began to write with sur
eness in larger forms, even though some songs had had success in the ear
ly years of the century. That success, and the ensuing maturity, depend
ed very much on his work with folksong, which he had begun to collect in 1
903; this opened the way to the lyrical freshness of the Housman cyc
le On Wenlock Edge and to the modally inflected tonality of the symphon
ic cycle that began with A Sea Symphony. But he learnt the same lesso
ns in studying earlier English music in his task as editor of the Engli
sh Hymnal (1906) - work which bore fruit in his Fantasia on a Theme by Tal
lis for strings, whose majestic unrelated consonances provided a new sou
nd and a new way into large-scale form. The sound, with its sense of natur
al objects seen in a transfigured light, placed Vaughan Williams in a powe
rfully English visionary tradition, and made very plausible his associati
on of his music with Blake (in the ballet Job) and Bunyan (in the opera T
he Pilgrim's Progress). Meanwhile the new command of form made possib
le a first orchestral symphony, A London Symphony, where characterful deta
il is worked into the scheme. A first opera, Hugh the Drover, made dire
ct use of folksongs, which Vaughan Williams normally did not do in orchest
ral works.
His study of folksong, however, certainly facilitated the pastoral to
ne of The Lark Ascending, for violin and orchestra, and then of the Pastor
al Symphony. At the beginning of the 1920s there followed a group of relig
ious works continuing the visionary manner: the unaccompanied Mass in G mi
nor, the Revelation oratorio Sancta civitas and the "pastoral episode" T
he Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains, later incorporated in The Pilgri
m's Progress. But if the glowing serenity of pastoral and vision were to r
emain central during the decades of work on that magnum opus, works of t
he later 1920s show a widening of scope, towards the comedy of the oper
as Sir John in Love (after The Merry Wives of Windsor) and The Poisoned Ki
ss, and towards the angularity of Satan's music in Job and of the Fourth S
ymphony. The quite different Fifth Symphony has more connection with The P
ilgrim's Progress, and was the central work of a period that also includ
ed the cantata Dona nobis pacem, the opulent Serenade to Music for 16 sing
ers and orchestra, and the A minor string quartet, the finest of Vaughan W
illiams's rather few chamber works.
A final period opened with the desolate, pessimistic Sixth Symphony, aft
er which Vaughan Williams found a focus in the natural world for such blea
kness when he was asked to write the music for the film Scott of the Antar
ctic : out of that world came his Seventh Symphony, the Sinfonia antartic
a, whose pitched percussion colouring he used more ebulliently in the Eigh
th Symphony, the Ninth returning to the contemplative world of The Pilgrim
's Progress.
WORKS
Operas: Hugh the Drover (1914, perf. 1924); The Shepherds of the Delectab
le Mountains (1921); Sir John in Love (1929); The Poisoned Kiss (1929, per
f. 1937); Riders to the Sea (1932, perf. 1937); The Pilgrim's Progress (19
51)
Ballet: Job (1931)
Symphonies: A Sea Sym., with vv (no. 1, 1909); A London Sym. (no. 2, 191
3, rev. 1920, 1933); Pastoral Sym. (no. 3, 1921); no. 4, f (1934); n
o. 5 D (1943); no. 6, e (1947); Sinfonia antartica, with vv (no. 7, 1952
); no. 8, d (1955); no. 9, e (1956-7)
Other orchestral music: The Wasps, ov. (1909); Fantasia on a Theme by Thom
as Tallis, str (1910, rev. 1919); The Lark Ascending, vn, orch (1914); Eng
lish Folk Song Suite, band (1923); Toccata marziale, band (1924); Conc. ac
cademico, vn (1925); Pf Conc., C (1931); Suite, va, small orch (1934); 5 v
ariants of Dives and Lazarus, str, harps (1939); Ob Conc., a (1944); Tu
ba Conc., f (1954)
Vocal-orchestral music: Flos campi, va, SATB (1925); Sancta civitas (1925
); Five Tudor Portraits (1935); Dona nobis pacem (1936); Serenade to Mus
ic (1938); An Oxford Elegy (1949); Hodie (1954)
Smaller choral: Mass, g (1921); many motets, partsongs, folksong arrs., ca
rols, hymns
Songs: On Wenlock Edge (1909); 10 Blake songs (1957); folksong arrs.
Chamber music: String Qt, a (1944); Violin sonata (1954)
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