Grace Williams is considered Wales’s most notable and influential female composer. Although influenced by the music of her teacher Ralph Vaughan Williams, she carved out her own musical niche by incorporating elements from Welsh folk music.
Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes
Composed in 1940
By Grace Williams
The Firebird was written for the 1910 Paris season of... Read more →
Influenced by the music of her teacher Ralph Vaughan Williams, Grace Williams carved out her own musical niche by incorporating elements from Welsh folk music. Read more →
Originally titled Lament, the Lyric for Strings was first composed as the second movement of Walker's String Quartet No. 1 in 1946 while he was a graduate student at the Curtis Institute of Music. Read more →
Josef Haydn, “Father of the Symphony” composed this symphony in Vienna in for his return to London, and conducted the first performance at the King’s Theatre on February 19, 1794. Read more →
Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1909, originally part of a suite of incidental music for a 1909 Cambridge production of Aristophanes’ classical Greek comedy “The Wasps,” a satire of the Athenian legal system. Read more →
Before becoming music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1924, Serge Koussevitzky was a celebrated Russian double-bass virtuoso and champion of the instrument. Read more →