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Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 in E Minor (1906, rev. 1914) is an orchestral rhapsody by Ralph Vaughan Williams based on folk songs he had collected in the English county of Norfolk, in particular in the port town of King's Lynn and the surrounding region. It is one of a set of three orchestral rhapsodies of 1905–06 based on Norfolk folk songs; Norfolk Rhapsody No. 2 in D minor still exists in a fragmentary form and has been reconstructed by Stephen Hogger, but the third Norfolk Rhapsody is lost.[1]
Michael Kennedy suggests that Vaughan Williams originally intended the three works to be performed together as a "Norfolk Symphony", although notes that this never occurred. Rhapsody No. 1 was premiered in London in August 1906 conducted by Henry Wood and was later substantially revised for a performance in Bournemouth in May 1914; the second and third rhapsodies were first performed together under the composer's baton at the Cardiff Festival in September 1907 and later in London in April 1912 but were then withdrawn.[1]
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