Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to the Editor of ‘Music & Letters’
Letter No. VWL1936
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to the Editor of ‘Music & Letters’
Letter No.: VWL1936
Dorking
October 1st 1944
Sir,
In a recent review of Gerald Finzi’s ‘Introit’ your contributor writes: “Mr. Finzi’s style in this work derives directly from the … music of the later Vaughan Williams, particularly his fifth Symphony”. Finzi’s ‘Introit’ was written about l925, my fifth Symphony about 1938.
Your reviewer evidently credits Mr. Finzi with a remarkably prophetic soul – or is the derivation possibly the other way round?
Yours faithfully,
R. Vaughan Williams. 1
1. Published in Music and Letters, vol. 26, no.1 (Jan. l945), p.59.
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