Vaughan Williams: Valiant-for-truth
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- Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
- Instrumentation: Piano, SATB Choir
- Work: Valiant-for-truth
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- Size: 7.0 x 10 inches
- Pages: 12
Description
This motet sets a text from John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress , in which Mr Valiant-for-Truth poignantly meditates on the subject of his own approaching death. The work concludes with the protagonist passing into heaven with the choir emulating 'the trumpets [sounding] for him on the other side'. Over a decade later in 1951, Vaughan Williams's operatic adaptation of The Pillgrim's Progress was performed for the first time, reflecting his continued fondness for Bunyan's tale.