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Vaughan Williams - Death Of Tintagiles

Vaughan Williams composed this melancholic and darkly atmospheric score as incidental music for a 1913 production of the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck's play The Death of Tintagiles. In the play, Tintagiles's family have been murdered by the Queen and, although he tries to escape, he is ultimately murdered the Queen too. Marionettes are used in place of actors in order, demonstrating that the characters are merely puppets of fate. Despite the generally morose tone, the music still has moments of warmth and tenderness, and does not display the violence and abrasiveness of some of the composer's later works.

Vaughan Williams composed this melancholic and darkly atmospheric score as incidental music for a 1913 production of the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck's play The Death of Tintagiles. In the play, Tintagiles's family have been murdered by the Queen and, although he tries to escape, he is ultimately murdered the Queen too. Marionettes are used in place of actors in order, demonstrating that the characters are merely puppets of fate. Despite the generally morose tone, the music still has moments of warmth and tenderness, and does not display the violence and abrasiveness of some of the composer's later works.

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