This composer's eighth symphony begins with a set of "variations without a theme".
This composer's eighth symphony begins with a set of "variations without a theme". In one of his pieces, the solo violin enters by playing a rising pentatonic melody beginning "D-E-D-E-A". The first and last movements of this composer's second symphony feature a harp imitating the Westminster Chimes. Several Walt Whitman poems are set in his first symphony, whose second movement is titled "On the (*) Beach at Night, Alone". This composer wrote a piece based on a George Meredith poem about a singing bird and a piece for four solo strings and double string orchestra which is based on the "Third Mode Melody" of an earlier English composer. For 10 points, name this English composer of The Lark Ascending and Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
This composer's eighth symphony begins with a set of "variations without a theme".
Ralph Vaughan Williams