Orchestral Composer of the Week.

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创建日期： 2011年 12月 11日
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Full orchestra, chamber variations, choral or other. Pick your 5 favourite composers per week and the composer with the most votes each week enters the Hall of Fame.

WELCOME TO ORCHESTRAL COMPOSER OF THE WEEK
Each week you can pick up to 5 of your favourite Orchestral composers and nominate them for the HALL OF FAME.
The composers can be classical composers or movie soundtrack composers but they must be known mainly for orchestral work (full orchestra, chamber variations or choral). Bring them all on and let's see who comes out on top.

The winning artist will be revealed each Sunday.

HALL OF FAME
Week 20 Winner -(UK Week) Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM (1872–1958) was an influential English composer.

Vaughan Williams was born on 12th October 1872 in Down Ampney, a village in the Cotswolds. After attending Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he became a student at the Royal College of Music; he later studied with Max Bruch in Berlin and Maurice Ravel in Paris.

He served as a lieutenant in World War I, having volunteered for the Field Ambulance Service; the appalling carnage affected him deeply, as did the deaths of close friends such as George Butterworth.

He wrote nine symphonies between 1910 and 1958, as well as numerous other works including chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also one of the first serious collectors of English folk music and served as president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS). The Society’s Vaughan Williams Memorial Library is named for him.

Vaughan Williams died on 26th August 1958, and his ashes are interred in Westminster Abbey.


PREVIOUS WINNERS
Wojciech Kilar
Johannes Brahms - Giuseppe Verdi
Franz Liszt - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russia Week)
Antonín Dvořák - Sergei Prokofiev
Edvard Grieg - Sergei Rachmaninoff
George Gershwin (USA Week) - Richard Wagner
Dmitri Shostakovich - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Frédéric Chopin - Johann Sebastian Bach
Antonio Vivaldi - John Williams
Ludwig van Beethoven - Howard Shore
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  • Biscuit1978

    Themed weeks every 5th week from Week 10 will focus on individual countries.

    2012年 3月

  • Decrescendo

    Happy New Year! (:

    2012年 1月

  • JeanLuis13

    John Powell! love him!

    2011年 12月

  • Biscuit1978

    I'll have to check them out a bit further but from first look they will probably be ok.

    2011年 12月

  • DepartureSong

    Will people like Tuomas Holopainen (Nightwish) or Mark Jansen (Epica) qualify? Both are metal musicians but work extensively with the symphonies and orchestras in their music.

    2011年 12月
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