A Sea Symphony
MUSICAL WORK; CHORAL SYMPHONY IN FOUR MOVEMENTS COMPOSED BY RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS; SETTING OF "LEAVES OF GRASS" BY WALT WHITMAN
Symphony No. 1 (Vaughan Williams); Sea Symphony; A Sea Symphony (Vaughan Williams)
A Sea Symphony is an hour-long work for soprano, baritone, chorus and large orchestra written by Ralph Vaughan Williams between 1903 and 1909. The first and longest of his nine symphonies, it was first performed at the Leeds Festival in 1910 with the composer conducting, and its maturity belies the relatively young age — thirty — when he began sketching it.