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This page lists all the composers and poets whose work is featured somewhere in the section War & Music. Links on the composer’s name takes you to their website or YouTube Channel. Links on their works take you to the page within WMT where that work is introduced.
Japanese Composers
Akutagawa Yasushi: Orpheus in Hiroshima
Dan Ikuma: Symphony No. 6 “Hiroshima”
Fujikura Dai: “Akiko’s Piano” Piano Concerto No. 4
Hashimoto Kunihiko: Symphony No. 1 and No. 2
Hayasaka Fumio: Festive Overture
Hayashi Hikaru: Scenes from Hiroshima
Hosokawa Toshio: Hiroshima Requiem
Ikebe Shinichiro: The Devil’s Gluttony
Ishiwaka Masaya: Kimi shinitamō koto nakare (Thou Shalt Not Die)
Kabasawa Mino: Deguchi no nai umi (Sea Without Exit)
Kawasaki Masaru: Prayer music No.1 Dirge
Kohjiba Tomiko: Hiroshima Requiem for Strings
Koseki Yuji: Bells of Nagasaki, Olympic March
Moroi Saburo: Symphony No. 2 and No. 3
Nobunaga Takatomi: Fragments, Kimi shinitamō koto nakare (Thou Shalt Not Die)
Ohki Masao: Symphony No. 5 “Hiroshima”
Oshima Michiru: A Thousand Paper Cranes
Ozaki Sokichi: The Night Song
Sakamoto Ryuichi: Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
Samuragochi Mamoru (Niigaki Takashi): Symphony No. 1 “Hiroshima”
Setoguchi Tokichi: Warship March
Takemitsu Toru: Black Rain
Yamada Kosaku: Symphony in F “Triumph and Peace”
Other Composers
Erkki Aaltonen: Symphony No. 2 Hiroshima
Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
Ludwig van Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata
Arthur Bliss: Morning Heroes
Sylvie Bodorová: Terezín Ghetto Requiem
Benjamin Britten: War Requiem
George Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad
André Caplet: Les Prières
Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Fryderyk Chopin: Nocturne No. 20
Johanna Doderer: Symphony No. 2 “Bohinj”
Edward Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1, Cello Concerto
Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs)
Enrique Granados: Spanish Dance No. 5
Pavel Haas: A Study for Strings
Jaap Nico Hamburger: Chamber Symphony No. 2 “Children’s War Diaries”
Patrick Hawes: The Great War Symphony
Gustav Holst: “Mars” from The Planets
Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man – A Mass for Peace
Paul Kletzki: Symphony No. 3 (“In memoriam”)
Francesco Lotoro: The Music Written in Concentration Camps
Borys Lyatoshynsky: Symphony No. 3
Boguslav Martinu: Memorial to Lidice
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
Veli Mukhatov: Symphony No. 2 “Heroic”
Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 4
Krzysztof Penderecki: Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Sergey Prokofiev: The “War Sonatas”, The Year 1941, Ode to the End of the War for Orchestra
Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, Le Tombeau de Couperin
John Rutter: A Ukrainian Prayer
Arnold Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw
Philip Seaton: “The Spirit of Christmas Past (1914)”
Dimitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2, Symphony No. 7 “Leningrad”, Symphony No. 11 “The Year 1905”.
Richard Strauss: Japanese Festival Music, Metamorphosen
Wladyslaw Szpilman: Little Ouverture (see also Chopin)
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 3 “A Pastoral Symphony”, Dona Nobis Pacem
Richard Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
William Walton: Battle of Britain Suite
John Williams: Star Wars, Hymn to the Fallen (from Saving Private Ryan), Schindler’s List main theme
Wang Yunjie, Symphony No.2 “The War of Resistance Against Japan”
Poets
Wilfred Owen and other World War I poets
Watanabe Chieko: Journey to Peace
Yosano Akiko: Kimi shinitamō koto nakare (Thou Shalt Not Die)
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