Person Open DS/UK/288 Williams; Ralph Vaughan (12 October 1872-26 August 1958); OM; English composer Williams Ralph Vaughan 12 October 1872-26 August 1958 English composer Male https://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx?9kB91s891u2K4k Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England (born)

English Musician; Composer White Son of Reverend Arthur Vaughan Williams (vicar) and Margaret Wedgwood. Margaret was a great-granddaughter of Josiah Wedgwood (potter) and nice of Charles Darwin (naturalist). Ralph's grandparents were of English and Welsh descent. Heterosexual Awards, Honours and Legacy: Vaughan Williams refused a knighthood at least once, and declined the post of Master of the King's Music after Elgar's death. The one state honour he accepted was the Order of Merit in 1935, which confers no prenominal title: he preferred to remain "Dr Vaughan Williams". Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over sixty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century. Vaughan Williams was born to a well-to-do family with strong moral views and a progressive social outlook. Throughout his life he sought to be of service to his fellow citizens, and believed in making music as available as possible to everybody. He was musically a late developer, not finding his true voice until his late thirties; his studies in 1907–1908 with the French composer Maurice Ravel helped him clarify the textures of his music and free it from Teutonic influences. Among the most familiar of his other concert works are Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (1910) and The Lark Ascending (1914). Two episodes made notably deep impressions in Williams's personal life. The First World War, in which he served in the army, had a lasting emotional effect. Twenty years later, though in his sixties and devotedly married, he was reinvigorated by a love affair with a much younger woman, who later became his second wife. He went on composing through his seventies and eighties, producing his last symphony months before his death at the age of eighty-five. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams (2019) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHhbryony 7/16/2012 Rachael.Fragola 3/1/2022 cf501ad2-ad8d-4a09-b378-271492e9c099