Arranger

Ralph Vaughan Williams

1872–1958 · Down Ampney, Gloucestershire · England

As music editor of The English Hymnal in 1906, he shaped what British congregations sang for the rest of the century. A collector of English folk songs, he worked many of them into hymn tunes as well as into his own symphonies and choral music. During the First World War he served in the medical corps.

Tunes

9

Lived

1872–1958

Hymnals

2