Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult

Letter No. VWL909

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult

Letter No.: VWL909

The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

April 5 [1931]

Dear Adrian

Many thanks for your letter – Probably the inchoate (piano¹) concerto² had better stand over and please say nothing about it to anyone as it may all come to nothing.
You ask about neglected master pieces by me. About 20 years ago I had a piece played called “In the Fen Country”³ which I rather liked then. I will look it out one day and see whether I still like it enough to submit it for your disapproval.
Yrs

RVW

1. Inserted in another hand.
2. See Catalogue of Works 1931/3. The work was performed by Harriet Cohen under Adrian Boult at the Queen’s Hall on 1 February 1933.
3. Catalogue of Works 1904/4. VW did in fact later revise the orchestration in 1935.

To:

Boult, Adrian, 1889-1983
From:

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
Scribe:

Vaughan Williams, Adeline, 1870-1951
Names:

Boult, Adrian, 1889-1983 Cohen, Harriet, 1895-1967
Musical Works:

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. Concertos, piano, orchestra, C major Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. In the Fen Country
Format:

Letter
General Notes:

Dated noted in hand of recipient.
Letter in the hand of AVW signed by VW.
Location Of Original:

BBC Written Archives Centre
Shelfmark:

File 910, VW composer
Location Of Copy:

British Library
Shelfmark Copy:

MS Mus.1714/1/8, f.100
Citation:

Cobbe 196; Moore, Music and Friends, p.96

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