Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Herbert Murrill
Letter No. VWL1566
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Herbert Murrill
Letter No.: VWL1566
From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
June 1 [1939]
Dear Mr Murrill
Please forgive my not writing before to thank you for your concert.
I was impressed with the string quartet which seemed to me to be full of invention and imagination without extravagance. I also enjoyed the work for clarinet and pfte (which I had heard before). The other works did not appeal to me so much.
This, of course, requires no answer.
Yours sincerely
R Vaughan Williams
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Date based on the composition date of Murrill’s String Quartet, in 1939. The first public performance of the quartet was not until November, so this concert by the Leighton Quartet (to whom the quartet is dedicated) at 8 Greville-place, Maida Vale, on 31 May 1939, must have been a private occasion, even though it was written up in the Daily Telegraph on 1 June.
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