Ralph Vaughan Williams

English Composer, 1872-1958

3 Famous pieces:

1. The Wasp (Opera about a Greek tragedy)

 

2. English Hymns

3. Fantasia on Greensleeves tune in Opera: Sir John in Love based on Shakespeare's play: The Merry Wives of Windsor. The Greensleeves was an old folk tune, which was later used by William Chatterton Dix to write the famous Christmas carol: What Child is this?

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