Tags: Classical Music Composition.
An Oxford Elegy is a work for narrator small mixed chorus and small orchestra written by Ralph Vaughan Williams between 1947 and 1949. It uses portions of two poems by Matthew Arnold The Scholar Gipsy and Thyrsis. The first performance took place privately whilst the public premiere took place in Oxford in June 1952 with Steuart Wilson as the speaker and Bernard Rose conductor.All his life Vaughan Williams wanted to create an opera from Arnold’s Scholar Gipsy.