Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Maud Karpeles
Letter No. VWL4821
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Maud Karpeles
Letter No.: VWL4821
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
[1933]
Dear Maud
Your friend Kurt quite fascinates me, & his music.1
The application of his very simple slightly Humperdinckian method to those tunes was lovely – & done with extreme skill & a lovely pfte part – but hard to play! – how beautifully he plays it! & I loved his murmuring the english words in that funny hoarse voice.
Wd you send me his address & his name (spelling) – I want to send him a book
Yrs
RVW
1. Perhaps Kurt Jooss, the dancer, who was also a pianist.
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Date estimated from context; Jooss fled Nazi Germany in 1933.
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 1714/2/3/1, ff. 118-119