沃恩·威廉斯出生于格洛斯特郡的下安普尼(英语:Down Ampney),而其父亚瑟·沃恩·威廉斯则是一名副主教。父亲逝世后,他在1875年被其母亲玛格丽特·苏珊·威奇伍德(Margaret Susan Wedgwood,1843–1937,陶瓷家约书亚·威奇伍德之曾孙女)照顾,并于其位于市北处的利斯山地方的家庭同住。达尔文为威廉斯的伯叔,两者间颇有关系。
拉尔夫(Rayf[1])于是被称作尊贵而聪明的中上阶级,但他没有视以为自然,仍努力不懈为其相信的民主和自由观念奋斗[2]。
Toward the Unknown Region, song for chorus and orchestra, setting of Walt Whitman(1906)
Five Mystical Songs for baritone, chorus and orchestra, settings of George Herbert(1911)
Fantasia on Christmas Carols for baritone, chorus, and orchestra(1912; arranged also for reduced orchestra of organ, strings, percussion)
Mass in G小调 for unaccompanied choir(1922)
Sancta Civitas(The Holy City) oratorio, text mainly from the Book of Revelation(1923-25)
Te Deum in G(1928)
Benedicite for soprano, chorus, and orchestra(1929)
In Windsor Forest, adapted from the opera Sir John in Love(1929)
Three Choral Hymns(1929)
Magnificat for contralto, women's chorus, and orchestra(1932)
Five Tudor Portraits for contralto, baritone, chorus, and orchestra(1935)
Dona nobis pacem,沃特·卫特曼词及其他(1936)
Festival Te Deum for chorus and orchestra or organ(1937)
Serenade to Music for sixteen solo voices and orchestra, a setting of Shakespeare(1938)
A Song for Thanksgiving(原作 Thanksgiving for Victory) for narrator, soprano solo, children's chorus, mixed chorus, and orchestra(1944)
An Oxford Elegy for narrator, mixed chorus and small orchestra(1949)
Three Shakespeare Songs ,为SATB没有伴奏的,用作英联邦国家音乐竞赛(The British Federation of Music Festivals National Competitive Festival ,1951)
Hodie, a Christmas oratorio(1954)
Folk songs of the Four Seasons for unaccompanied SSA chorus.
Epithalamion for baritone solo, chorus, flute, piano, and strings(1957)
Numerous hymns, some of which were first published in the English Hymnal of 1906, of which Vaughan Williams was the musical editor, collaborating with Percy Dearmer.
声乐
"Linden Lea",歌(1901)
The House of Life(1904)
Songs of Travel(1904)
"The Sky Above The Roof"(1908)
On Wenlock Edge, song cycle for tenor, piano and string quartet(1909)
Along the Field, for tenor and violin
Three Poems by Walt Whitman for baritone and piano(1920)
Four Poems by Fredegond Shove: for baritone and piano(1922)
Four Hymns for Tenor, Viola and Strings(1914)
Merciless Beauty for tenor, two violins, and cello
Four Last Songs(Vaughan Williams)|Four Last Songs to poems of Ursula Vaughan Williams
Ten William Blake|Blake songs, song cycle for high voice and oboe(1957)
电影、电台、电视配乐
49th Parallel, 1940, his first, talked into it by Muir Mathieson to assuage his guilt at being able to do nothing for the war-effort