Vaughan Williams, Ralph

Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM (Order of Merit) (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. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century...

His was the most famous arrangement of the french folk carol tune "Picardy" for Gerard Moultrie's hymn "Let all mortal flesh keep silence" in 1906, more than 40 years after the hymn's composition.