Musical Footnotes to a World War

Maurice Ravel at Verdun

One of Maurice Ravel's  last major works was the Piano Concerto in D for the Left Hand, written for the Viennese pianist Paul Wittgenstein (1887–1961), who had lost his right arm in the war.

Edward Elgar wrote his last masterpiece, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in E minor, Op.85, in 1919 to lament the terrible deaths in the Great War.

The premiere of Gustav Holst's The Planets Suite, with that standard of war film and documentary scores "Mars - The Bringer of War", was held on Sunday, 29 September 1918, in London's Royal Albert Hall.