Previous posts for October 12th are here: Ralph Vaughan Williams (2019), Ralph Vaughan Williams; Luciano Pavarotti (2020), Ralph Vaughan Williams (2021), and Ralph Vaughan Williams; Johann Ludwig Krebs (2022)
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Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958) was one of the most important British composers of the last century.
Greensleeves et al.
Consider Vaughan Williams and it
Is apparent you’ll have to admit
That when finding the gold in
The times of “Ye Olden”
He was never just any old Brit.
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Sylvius Leopold Weiss (12 October 1687 – 16 October 1750) was a German composer and lutenist.
Battle Royal
"Anyone who knows how difficult it is to play harmonic modulations and good counterpoint on the lute will be surprised and full of disbelief to hear from eyewitnesses that Weiss, the great lutenist, challenged J.S. Bach, the great harpsichordist and organist, at playing fantasies and fugues." -- Johann Friedrich Reichardt, qtd. in Wikipedia, s.v. "Sylvius Leopold Weiss"
Old Silvius Leopold Weiss
Did battle with Bach once or twice;
And those who attended
Declared them both splendid,
And the tickets were well worth the price.
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