Ralph Vaughan-Williams was an English composer of symphonies,chamber music, operas, choral music and soundtracks. Student of the RoyalLondon College of Music, he received his doctorate in music at Cambridge in 1901. He studied in Berlin with Max Bruch and in Paris with Maurice Ravel. At the end of the First World War he was appointed professor of composition at the Royal College of Music in London. He was highly appreciated as a lecturer and scholar of English folk songs, a work that culminated in animpressive catalogue of popular music of Great Britain. Suite de Ballet for flute and orchestra or flute and piano is in four movements and in this work Vaughan-Williams begins to experiment with bi-tonality, which he will then use in later works, offering the pianist and the flutist a wide range of expressive and virtuosic possibilities. The piece was discovered among the author's manuscripts after his death and was probably composed in 1913 for the famous French flutist Louis Fleury (the same flutist to whom Claude Debussy dedicated Syrinx to solo flute).
Classical Music | Music for Flute
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Suite de Ballet Play
Recorded on 09/04/2019, uploaded on 03/17/2020
Musician's or Publisher's Notes
I.Improvisation: Andante
II.Humoresque: Presto
III.Gavotte: Quasi lento
IV.Passepied: Allegro vivacissimo
Ralph Vaughan-Williams was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, operas, choral music and soundtracks. Student of the Royal London College of Music, he received his doctorate in music at Cambridge in 1901. He studied in Berlin with Max Bruch and in Paris with Maurice Ravel. At the end of the First World War he was appointed professor of composition at the Royal College of Music in London. He was highly appreciated as a lecturer and scholar of English folk songs, a work that culminated in an impressive catalogue of popular music of Great Britain. Suite de Ballet for flute and orchestra or flute and piano is in four movements and in this work Vaughan-Williams begins to experiment with bi-tonality, which he will then use in later works, offering the pianist and the flutist a wide range of expressive and virtuosic possibilities. The piece was discovered among the author's manuscripts after his death and was probably composed in 1913 for the famous French flutist Louis Fleury (the same flutist to whom Claude Debussy dedicated Syrinx to solo flute).
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