A Sea Symphony
Symphony composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the symphony by Ralph Vaughan Williams. For the symphony by Howard Hanson, see Symphony No. 7 (Hanson).
A Sea Symphony is an hour-long work for soprano, baritone, chorus and large orchestra written by Ralph Vaughan Williams between 1903 and 1909. The first and longest of his nine symphonies, it was first performed at the Leeds Festival in 1910 with the composer conducting, and its maturity belies the relatively young age – 30 – when he began sketching it. Moreover it is one of the first symphonies in which a chorus is used throughout as an integral part of the texture and it helped set the stage for a new era of symphonic and choral music in Britain during the first half of the 20th century. It was never numbered.
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