THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Gerald Cockshott

Letter No. VWL4743

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Gerald Cockshott

Letter No.: VWL4743


The White Gates
Dorking

Feb 12 [1949?]

Dear Mr Cockshott
Thankyou very much for the F.S.1 arrangements – also for your interesting account of travel [?] in Denmark. I can’t make much out of Nielsen myself
Yrs sincerely
R Vaughan Williams


1. Folk song
2. Cockshott wrote an account of music in Denmark which was published in the Musical Times in December 1948 (p.363), and which described the music of Nielsen as ‘indifferent’.