THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

From R.VAUGHAN WILLIAMS,

10, HANOVER TERRACE,

REGENT’S PARK,

LONDON, N.W.1.

November 17th 1956.

Dear Alan,
Will this do?¹ I think I can find someone to translate the Nordic for us!²
Yrs RVW

1. Responding to a request, forwarded from Frank, from the pianist Andor Foldes for a short statement for printing in his Festival Hall recital in aid of rebuilding the Bonn Beethoven Hall. VW wrote the following: ‘Beethoven’s name will live in our memories without any physical symbol: nevertheless, I rejoice in the fact that we have a building where we can house his spirit’.
2. Frank’s request for the statement above included a cutting from the magazine Nordisk Musikkultur, Copenhagen.