Mrs. Constance Shacklock:

>>Have other composers pursued military careers? I recall in my youth seeing
>>a fetching picture of Dmitri Shostakovich during the siege of Stalingrad
>>wearing not only his customary little round glasses but a dashing fireman's
>>helmet.

Actually, Constance, I think you'll find it was Leningrad our man was
firefighting in.

Pablo Massa ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Shostakovich, Schoenberg and Berg (the only cases I know) didn't pursue
>what one may call a military career.  They joined the army, voluntarily
>or not, during WW I and II, and were not but regular soldiers (or firemen,
>in the case of DS).  ...

Others were called up and some, like George Butterworth (d1916 IIRC) lost
their lives.

Deryk Barker
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