About: Ralph Vaughan Williams   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Ralph Vaughan Williams (pronounced Rafe - his father couldn't say the letter 'l') was born on January 23rd, 1722 in the sleepy village of Birmingham, the son of tailor and part-time lawyer Job Vaughan Williams. Being the youngest of three brothers (his siblings were called Dives and Lazarus), little Ralph had a difficult childhood, not least because his brothers were constantly squabbling over who was going to heaven and who would be damned to hell. Vaughan Williams graduated from the Royal College in 1911, when Stanford (perhaps grudgingly) bestowed upon the composer the title quoted above.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
rdfs:comment
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams (pronounced Rafe - his father couldn't say the letter 'l') was born on January 23rd, 1722 in the sleepy village of Birmingham, the son of tailor and part-time lawyer Job Vaughan Williams. Being the youngest of three brothers (his siblings were called Dives and Lazarus), little Ralph had a difficult childhood, not least because his brothers were constantly squabbling over who was going to heaven and who would be damned to hell. Vaughan Williams graduated from the Royal College in 1911, when Stanford (perhaps grudgingly) bestowed upon the composer the title quoted above.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:uncyclopedi...iPageUsesTemplate
abstract
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams (pronounced Rafe - his father couldn't say the letter 'l') was born on January 23rd, 1722 in the sleepy village of Birmingham, the son of tailor and part-time lawyer Job Vaughan Williams. Being the youngest of three brothers (his siblings were called Dives and Lazarus), little Ralph had a difficult childhood, not least because his brothers were constantly squabbling over who was going to heaven and who would be damned to hell. Despite the pressures of family life, Ralph excelled at school, gaining qualifications in Pastoral Studies, Advanced Pastoral Stuides, Modal Harmony, Cream-tea eating, Tailoring and Languages (at the time a course which required students to speak fluently all the languages of the known world). Inspired by his Modal Harmony classes and by his kazoo teacher Mr. William 'Dicky' Byrd, Ralph decided to apply for composition lessons at the Royal College of Music with Professor Sir Charles Villiers Cuthbert Smyth Fortesque Stanford FRCO. However, Stanford turned the young Ralph away, bidding him come back when his musical talent had matured a little more. So it was that, in 1909, Ralph Vaughan Williams finally began composition lessons. Despite Stanford attempting to crush Ralph's aptitude for modality by a series of punishing hours listening to Diabelli, Spohr and Richard Strauss, the young student's passion for all things Elizabethan remained undiminished. Indeed, it was perhaps the influence of his 'harmony' teacher, Master Thomas Tallis that nurtured this passion. Vaughan Williams graduated from the Royal College in 1911, when Stanford (perhaps grudgingly) bestowed upon the composer the title quoted above.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software