Vaughan williams biography
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Vaughan williams biography
The Lark Ascending (Vaughan Williams)
Musical composition by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending is a short, single-movement work by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, inspired by the 1881 poem of the same name by the English writer George Meredith.
It was originally for violin and piano, completed in 1914, but not performed until 1920. The composer reworked it for solo violin and orchestra after the First World War. This version, in which the work is chiefly known, was first performed in 1921.
It is subtitled "A Romance", a term that Vaughan Williams favoured for contemplative slow music.
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The work has gained considerable popularity in Britain and elsewhere and has been much recorded between 1928 and the present day.
Background
Among the enthusiasms of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams were poetry and the violin.
He had trained as a violinist as a boy, and greatly preferred the violin to the piano, for which he never had a great fo