Vaughan Williams, Ralph, (1872-1958), composer

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Surname:	Vaughan Williams
Forenames:	Ralph
Gender:	Male
Date:	1872-1958
Places:	Down Ampney, Gloucestershire
Biography:	ODNB link for Williams, Ralph Vaughan (1872-1958) composer
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P137018 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P29218 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Ralph Vaughan Williams

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	c1878-1958: corresp, musical MSS, collections and papers	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 50140
2	c 1913: Music for Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night';	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 69451
3	c1872-1974: corresp, musical MSS and papers	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 72073-72078
4	1895-56: letters to GE Moore	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Add MS 8330/8V/3	NRA 38845
5	1895-1979: music MSS, corresp, misc papers	British Library, Music Collections	MS Mus 153-165	See Annual Return 2002
6	1899-1957: letters	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 69816
7	20th cent: music MSS	British Library, Music Collections	Mus. Dep. 2008/31
8	1901-1902: MS of Heroic Elegy and Triumphal Epilogue	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library	Osborn Music MS 504	NRA 18661 Osborn coll
9	c1903-33: letters from GT Holst	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 57953
10	1908-1919: letters from Maurice Ravel	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 50360
11	1910-51: letters to EJ Dent	Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre	EJD/4/456	NRA 44130
12	1911-49: letters to Gilbert Murray	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Gilbert Murray	NRA 16865
13	1914-72: corresp and papers collected by Dr William Cole, conductor of the Leith Hill Musical Festival	Surrey History Centre	8062	See Annual Return 2006
14	c1918-58: letters to Sir AC Boult	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 60499, 72624
15	c1924-1925: MS of Concerto Academico	British Library, Music Collections	Egerton MS 3251
16	1926-48: letters to Sir Ivor Atkins	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 69449
17	1929-58: corresp with Rutland Boughton	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 52366
18	1932-55: letters to Katharine Thomson and her mother Jessie Stewart	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 71536
19	1935-57: letters from the Society of Authors	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 63349
20	1938-58: letters to Sir H J and Lady Jessie Wood	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 56422
21	1942-58: letters to Roy Douglas	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 63547
22	1947, 1953: letters concerning anthem 'The Souls of the Righteous' 1947; photocopied letters to William McKie concerning 1953 coronation music.	Westminster Abbey Library and Muniment Room	WAM 62314-24; McKie collection
23	c1951-1958: letters to D Wallis	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 71105
24	c1957-1958: corresp with Herbert Sumsion, composer	British Library, Music Collections	MS Mus 1714/1/23	See Annual Return 2005, 2007
25	manuscripts	Royal Academy of Music Library		See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
26	c1900-1958: sketches and score of ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’; sketch books and loose leaves for Symphony no. 8, ‘Shropshire Lad’, Sea Symphony’ and other works	British Library, Music Collections	Music Deposit 2015/05A
27	c1900-1958: 'Iphigenia in Tauris' by Euripides, annotated printed book	British Library, Music Collections	Music Deposit 2015/15
28	c 1896-1958: manuscripts	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 50361-50482
29	1910-1914: 'Hugh the Drover', ballad opera in two acts with libretto by Harold Child	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 50843
30	c 1951: romance for viola and piano	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 50863
31	1940-1941: 'Household Music', three preludes based on Welsh hymn tunes, for string quartet or alternative instruments with horn ad libitum	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 50862
32	c 1914-1915: London symphony	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 51317 A-D
33	1928: musical mss	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 52287
34	1946: musical mss	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 52288
35	1948: music for the film Scott of the Antarctic (1948)	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 52289
36	1944: string quartet no. 2, in A minor	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 52290
37	1950: music for the film Bitter Springs	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 52383
38	1914-1920: 'The Lark Ascending', romance for violin and orchestra	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 52385
39	1920: 'O clap your hands' (f. 1), set for SATB chorus, brass, percussion and organ	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 52601
40	1958: '3 Vocalises for soprano voice and clarinet'	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 52614
41	1921-1925: songs, motets and settings	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 52620
42	c 1878-1925: musical mss	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 54186-54191
43	c 1939: English folksongs	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 54214
44	1931: 'Job. A Masque for Dancing'	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 54326
45	1911: 'Five Mystical Songs'	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 56064
46	c 1907: 'Toward the Unknown Region'	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 56086
47	1882-1958: musical mss	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 57265-57295
48	1953-1957: musical mss	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 57338-57339
49	1929: musical mss	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 57471
50	1939: 'Flourish for Wind Band'	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 57489
51	1929: 'Three Choral Hymns'	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 57723
52	1938: vocal score	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 57914
53	1920-1921: two-piano version of the Pastoral Symphony	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 57981
54	1944-1947: symphony in e minor no. 6	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 58072
55	c 1906-1920: English folk songs	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 59535-59536
56	1948: music for the film Scott of the Antarctic	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 59537
57	1902-1929: songs and other music	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 59796
58	1955: music for the film The England of Elizabeth	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 60392
59	1946-1948: Partita for double string orchestra	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 61741
60	c 1930: Opera, Hugh the Drover	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 61990
61	1926-1931: piano concerto in C major	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 62110
62	1929: Fantasia on Sussex Folk-Tunes for 'cello and orchestra	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 62517
63	1931-1934: Symphony no. 4 in F minor;	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 62995
64	1924: 'Concerto Grosso for Military Band'	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 62996
65	1953-1955: Symphony no. 8 in D minor	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 63073
66	1952: 'The Pilgrim's Progress'	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 63491
67	c 1930: 'Hugh the Drover'	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 63492
68	1925: 'The Wasps'	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 63544
69	1920-1922: rondels and motet	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 63545
70	1944: incidental music for 'Richard II'	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 63597
71	1935-1951: works for trumpets	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 63849
72	c 1954-1959: sketches and drafts of 'Four Last Songs'	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 65088
73	1958: 'The First Nowell'	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 65089-65091
74	c 1958: sketches and draft libretto for the unfinished opera 'Thomas the Rhymer'	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 65092-65098
75	1929-1956: letters and papers	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 65143
76	1954: folk songs	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 65144
77	1915-1958: music mss	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 65188
78	1950-1956: correspondence	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 65533
79	1950-1951: correspondence and papers relating to staging 'The Pilgrim's Progress'	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 69448 A-B
80	c 1925: musical sketch-book	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 69452
81	c 1929-1971: full score pages from the publisher's hire library copies of the opera 'Sir John in Love'	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 69454-69456
82	c 1897-1958: sonata for horn and piano in F major	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 69457
83	1950: material relating to the translation into German of the text of the stage morality 'The Pilgrim's Progress'	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 70630
84	c 1872-1958: double-bass part for the aria 'Mein teurer Heiland' from Bach's St Matthew Passion	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 70631
85	1934-1937: 'Pipeaux 1934'	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 70632
86	1904-1943: short works for piano solo	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 70780
87	1903-1974: music mss, correspondence and papers relating to the composition and staging of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 70934-70937
88	c 1958: libretto and vocal score of the unfinished opera ‘Thomas the Rhymer’	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 70985-70986
89	marked copy of The Pilgrim's Progress	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 71123
90	Ludwig van Beethoven and Vaughan Williams' tuning forks	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 71148 A-C
91	c 1949-1952: Sinfonia Antartica	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 71176
92	1942: part of the music for the film Coastal Command	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 71219
93	c 1897-1958: music mss	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 71476-71493
94	c 1932-1955: letters to Katharine Thomson and her mother, Mrs Jessie Stewart	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 71536
95	1920-1958: music mss	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 71542
96	1889-1956: correspondence	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 71700
97	20th cent: letters	British Library, Music Collections	Music Deposit 2017/34	See Annual Return 2017
98	20th cent: annotated scores and ms copies of scores from the Oxford University Press archive	British Library, Music Collections	Music Deposit 2022/26	See Annual Return 2022