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\n<\/span><\/p>\nA forgotten Vaughan Williams score will have its world premiere on Thursday.<\/p>\n
A Cambridge Mass, written when the composer was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, had been filed away in the University Library.<\/p>\n
Conductor Alan Tongue discovered the piece in 2007 and spent the past year transcribing it.<\/p>\n
Vaughan Williams was just 26 when he wrote the mass, but Mr Tongue said: “Every bar already had the hallmark of a great composer.”<\/p>\n
The choral manuscript was submitted for his Doctor of Music examination in October 1899.<\/p>\n
It lay undiscovered until the university held an exhibition of some of its 500,000 volumes of printed and manuscript music scores.<\/p>\n
‘Very significant’<\/span><\/p>\nMr Tongue said he was amazed when he stumbled across the unknown work.<\/p>\n
“There was a big sheet of Vaughan Williams – a work that I had clearly never seen before, and it looked so good I wanted to hear it,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It had been mentioned in a few books but no one had ever bothered to take it out and try to perform it, which is extraordinary. It’s waited for 110 years.”<\/p>\n
Vaughan Williams’s 45-minute work for four soloists, double chorus, orchestra and organ was given the title A Cambridge Mass by Mr Tongue. The composer had originally named only the individual movements.<\/p>\n
“It’s very significant and is the earliest large-scale Vaughan Williams work that we have,” said Mr Tongue.<\/p>\n
“And it’s a very positive, carefree, happy, optimistic piece composed just before his famous hymn-writing period and very unlike his later bleak period.”<\/p>\n
Mr Tongue will conduct the first performance of A Cambridge Mass at Fairfield Halls in Croydon.<\/p>\n
“As a conductor I take a lot of English music around the world and normally I’m introducing foreign audiences to the work of Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Holst and so on.<\/p>\n
“This time I shall be introducing a work of Vaughan Williams to a British audience and that will give me a lot of pleasure,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It’s not a student work at all. But let’s see what the reviewers and musical experts think of it.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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