Ralph_Vaughan_Williams

"Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-), English musical composer, was born at Down Ampney, Oct. 12 1872. He was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of Mus. Bac. in 1894. He studied further at the Royal College of Music, and also at Paris and Berlin. He took the degree of Mus. Doc. at Cambridge in 1901, and in 1919 received an hon. musical degree from the university .of Oxford. His works include Toward the Unknown Region (1907); Willow-wood (1909); Sea Symphony (1910); On Wenlock Edge  (1911); London Symphony (1914; Carnegie award 1917) and many fine songs, including arrangements of traditional melodies.