Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) is one of the most important composers of the 20th century ... Charles Wood and Stanford. Ralph's early work was influenced by his dissatisfaction with the English ...

He then studied at the Royal College of Music and Cambridge and took private lessons with a series of famous ... as 'the most important English composer of his generation'. Vaughan Williams ...

During World War One, Vaughan ... famous composers including in Germany, Bruch and in France, Ravel. Despite all of this it took him until his 40s to really get going on his own career! Vaughan ...