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Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (Russian: Николай Карлович Метнер, romanized: Nikolay Karlovich Metner; 5 January 1880 [O.S. 24 December 1879]–13 November 1951) [1] was a Russian composer and pianist. After a period of comparative obscurity in the 25 years immediately after his death, he is now becoming recognized as one of the ...
His music was used as the opening and closing title music for a 2003 television documentary series entitled The First World War. The piece of music was Cortège, arranged by Orlando Gough. [6] Cortège is one of the two surviving movements of a suite composed by Coles called Behind the Lines. [7]
Right after the war started, the composer called it the anti-Hitler theme. Later Shostakovich referred to that "German" theme as the "theme of evil," which was absolutely true, since the theme was just as much anti-Hitler as it was anti-Stalin, even though the world music community fixed on only the first of the two definitions.
George Frideric Handel was the house composer at Cannons from August 1717 until February 1719. [1] The Chandos Anthems and other important works by Handel were conceived, written or first performed at Cannons. Cannons was a large house in Middlesex, the seat of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos who was a patron of Handel.
World War I also marked the use of the Paris Gun, the longest-ranged gun ever fired. This 200 mm (8 in) caliber gun was used by the Germans to bombard Paris, and was capable of hitting targets more than 122 km (76 mi) away. [151] Royal Artillery howitzers at the Battle of the Somme. The Second World War sparked new developments in cannon ...
Bernard William George Rose OBE FRCO (9 May 1916 – 21 November 1996) was a British organist, soldier, composer, and academic.. A graduate of Cambridge University, he is best known for his compositions of Anglican church music; his Preces and Responses, for use in the Anglican services of Mattins and Evensong, is widely performed.
Russian World War 1 propaganda posters generally showed the enemies as demonic, one example showing Kaiser Wilhelm as a devil figure. [13] They would all depict the war as ‘patriotic’, with one poster saying that the war was Russia’s second ‘patriotic war’, the first being against Napoleon.
"Over There" is a 1917 war song written by George M. Cohan that was popular with the United States military and the American public during World War I and World War II.Written shortly after the American entry into World War I, "Over There" is a patriotic propaganda song intended to galvanize American men to enlist in the American Expeditionary Forces and fight the Central Powers.