This investigation will debate the following question: To what extent was the impact of WWI on classical music? The time periods that I will be looking at are between 1900-1930 to really see the differences in music composition before, during, and after the war. The first World War changed what classical music sounds and looks, with many composers dying in battle or left unwillingly scarred. Some pieces of music were composed with the emotions that composers captured from the war, while others were the result of despair at the tragedy of it all. World War One changed the course of music history and allowed for some incredible modern pieces with new techniques and ideas that may have otherwise not existed. The two sources that I have selected for further analysis will talk about several different composers and how their compositions either did or did not change before and after the war.
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Both composers wanted to really get the feeling of being scared and helpless through their music to have songs to remember the hardship that was WWI. The composers’ names were Edgar Elgar and Max Reger. Elgar wrote a selection of music in support of Belgian resistance and soon followed by a selection named Polonia, which was originally written for a Polish Victims’ Relief Fund Concert in the Queen’s Hall in London (). Elgar felt that if he could convey the emotions of the war through his music, he would make the war even more known and more realistic to the public. Reger greeted the beginning of the War with his 15-minute Eine Vaterländische Overtüre dedicated it to the German army (). This composition was patriotic towards the German people and gave them motivation to prepare for the
Both composers wanted to really get the feeling of being scared and helpless through their music to have songs to remember the hardship that was WWI. The composers’ names were Edgar Elgar and Max Reger. Elgar wrote a selection of music in support of Belgian resistance and soon followed by a selection named Polonia, which was originally written for a Polish Victims’ Relief Fund Concert in the Queen’s Hall in London (). Elgar felt that if he could convey the emotions of the war through his music, he would make the war even more known and more realistic to the public. Reger greeted the beginning of the War with his 15-minute Eine Vaterländische Overtüre dedicated it to the German army (). This composition was patriotic towards the German people and gave them motivation to prepare for the