Tony Duggan wrote:
>Ralph Vaughan Williams served in the Medical Corps in WWI and, of
>course, George Butterworth was an Army Officer in WWI and was killed
>in the Battle of the Somme. ...
Ernest Farrar was a lesser-known English composer who was killed after two
days at the front in 1918. He was taught by Stanford and taught Finzi, so
there's a continuum of sorts there. Chandos CHAN 9586 contains 72 minutes
of very approachable orchestral music including Variations for Piano and
Orchestra and a tone poem, The Forsaken Merman, after a Matthew Arnold
poem.
Richard Pennycuick
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