![]() Years later, Britain's Ralph Vaughan Williams worked through his war experiences on the French front. Many musicians lost their lives in the trenches Image: picture alliance/akg-images For his song " Epitaph auf einen in der Flandernschlacht Gefallenen" (Epitaph for a Fallen Soldier in the Battle of Ypers), Eisler's friend Bertolt Brecht wrote the lyrics. The well-known composer Hanns Eisler, who grew up in a left-leaning home and later established contact with the Communist Party, began working in 1916 during his time in the military on an anti-war oratorio ("Oratorium gegen den Krieg"). In Germany, Max Reger's "Requiem," begun in 1915 and dedicated to German soldiers who had lost their lives, was never completed. British composer Frank Bridge also wrote a piano sonata for a friend who died in 1918 - Ernest Farrar. He wasn't the only one to write piano music as an expression of mourning. Ravel dedicated each of the individual movements to a fallen soldier from within his circle of friends. With the six-movement suite composed successively over the course of World War I, it became an elegy of a different kind. Ravel dedicated his "tombeau" to Francois Couperin, France's greatest Baroque composer. One of the best known of these pieces is Maurice Ravel's piano suite " Le tombeau de Couperin" (Couperin's Grave), which was written between 19 and later adapted by the composer into an orchestral version.įrench composers working during the Baroque used "tombeau" in pieces for colleagues who had died. The longer the fighting lasted, the more musicians examined and worked through the topic of death or used their works to mourn the loss of close friends. Maurice Ravel wrote music for friends lost in the war Image: picture-alliance/dpa With his " Noel des enfants qui n'ont plus de maison," (Christmas Carol for Children from Destroyed Homes), Debussy brought forth one of the first works to take up the horrors of the war. ![]() When will the hatred finally cease? Can you even talk about hate when it comes to this development in history? When will people stop entrusting the fate of nations to people who view humanity as a means to their own ascent?" Claude Debussy, a thoroughly patriotic Frenchman, wrote in 1916: "The war continues - it's unfathomable. Heroic sounds were still standard fare at home in concert halls far from the front, but by the end of 1914, some composers already began to doubt the government's war push. They soon discovered the reality on the battlefield was something entirely unexpected. Young men enthusiastically registered for the war effort - in the hope of returning from their service as heroes decorated with medals of honor. ![]() Whether in Berlin, Vienna, Paris or London: by the end of July 1914, there was widespread support for mobilizing the armed forces. ![]()
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