In the Fen Country

In the Fen Country is an orchestral tone poem written by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

[4] Described by Vaughan Williams as a "symphonic impression", it received its premiere under the conductor Thomas Beecham on 22 February 1909.

[5] The piece is meant to evoke feelings of traversing East Anglia's often bleak Fen landscape, illustrated by the solo opening melody, then wide open spaces as portrayed by sweeping string orchestral textures, with a melodic language strongly reminiscent of English folksong, and a harmonic language closely aligned with that of Frederick Delius in his idyllic idiom.

[6] In the Fen Country received its first publication from Oxford University Press, posthumously, in 1969.

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