Ralph Vaughan Williams Letters
1895-1958
Hugh Cobbe's book of VW letters published at
last!
Containing about 750 letters selected from more than
3, 300, Hugh's book is the first fruits of a project that has been under way
for some twenty years. Correspondence includes letters to Barbirolli,
Evelyn Sharp, Adrian Boult, Butterworth, Finzi, Holst, Howells.
" In general the book paints a self-portrait of Vaughan
Williams not only as a great composer but as a large-minded and public-spirited
personality who towered over the British musical world for forty years"
Oxford
University Press
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