Heirs and rebels : letters written to each other and occasional writings on music / by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst ; edited by Ursula Vaughan Williams and Imogen Holst.

Author/creator Vaughan Williams, Ralph
Other author Holst, Gustav, 1874-1934.
Other author Vaughan Williams, Ursula.
Other author Holst, Imogen, 1907-1984.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon, New York : Oxford University Press, 1959.
Description111 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Letters 1895-1903 -- Vaughan Williams's early writings on music. Good taste ; Bach and Schumann ; Librettos ; Conducting ; Hymn tunes -- Letters 1906-1919 -- Holst's lecture notes. Notes for a lecture on England and her music ; My favourite Tudor composer ; Extract from a lecture on Samuel Wesley ; Two fragments on musical education -- Letters 1922-1928 -- Holst's lecture on the teaching of art -- Letters 1930-1934 -- Holst's lecture on Haydn -- Vaughan Williams on the composer in wartime, 1940 -- Vaughan Williams's talk on Parry and Stanford, 1957 -- Postscript: eheu fugaces.
Abstract From the forty-year-old friendship between Vaughan Williams and Holst few letters survive: Holst kept less than fifty, Vaughan Williams less than a dozen. Even so, the correspondence gives a vivid impression of their deep, excited, and continuing interest in each other's work. These fragments of a lifelong conversation on music show the changing conditions from the nineties, when German influence dominated the scene, to the early nineteen-thirties, when English music was a firmly established and growing reality. The letters are supplemented by lectures and articles, unpublished or reprinted from sources long out of print. The book has been edited by Ursula Vaughan Williams and Imogen Holst.
Bibliography noteIncludes list of works of Holst and Vaughan Williams mentioned in text. Includes index.
LCCN 60000238

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