COMPOSER

Ralph Vaughan Williams

1872 - 1958

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Ralph Vaughan Williams ( RAYF vawn WIL-yəmz; 12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over sixty years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ralph Vaughan Williams has received more than 2,526,039 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Ralph Vaughan Williams is the 360th most popular composer (down from 293rd in 2019), the 1,069th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 920th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Composer.

Ralph Vaughan Williams is most famous for his compositions of the English Folk Song Suite and the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.

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  • 2.5M

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  • 59.02

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  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams ranks 360 out of 1,451. Before him are Hugo Riemann, Ichirou Mizuki, Michel Richard Delalande, Jacobus Gallus, Samuel Scheidt, and Ignaz Moscheles. After him are Willem Mengelberg, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Luca Marenzio, Jan Ladislav Dussek, Wojciech Kilar, and Alfredo Casella.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Ralph Vaughan Williams ranks 43. Before him are Ichiyō Higuchi, Willem de Sitter, Julius Fučík, Henry Tingle Wilde, Édouard Herriot, and Marcel Renault. After him are Kijūrō Shidehara, Ottokar Czernin, Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria, Vladimir Arsenyev, Mathilde Kschessinska, and Princess Margaret of Prussia. Among people deceased in 1958, Ralph Vaughan Williams ranks 35. Before him are Petru Groza, Ole Kirk Christiansen, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Duncan Edwards, Pál Maléter, and Nuri al-Said. After him are Henri Farman, 'Abd al-Ilah, Prince Oskar of Prussia, Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Infanta Eulalia of Spain, and Princess Louise of Orléans.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ralph Vaughan Williams ranks 1,069 out of 8,785. Before him are William Smith (1769), Isabella Bird (1831), David Hamilton (1933), Cozy Powell (1947), Nicko McBrain (1952), and Dave Gahan (1962). After him are W. O. Bentley (1888), Bob Hope (1903), Ian Wilmut (1944), Mungo Park (1771), Edmund Leighton (1852), and William Henry Perkin (1838).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Ralph Vaughan Williams ranks 13. Before him are Keith Emerson (1944), Eugen d'Albert (1864), Thomas Tallis (1502), Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948), John Dunstaple (1390), and Michael Nyman (1944). After him are Ethel Smyth (1858), Frederick Delius (1862), William Walton (1902), John Blow (1649), Neville Marriner (1924), and Thomas Arne (1710).

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