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IAN PACE posits the question whether works explicitly thematising traumatic events amount to a meaningful response
QUANTITY OVER QUALITY: Classical music responses to 9/11
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FROM natural disasters to war, classical composers have long responded to traumatic events with their music, especially in the 20th century.
The Danish composer Carl Nielsen composed Paraphrase on Nearer My God to Thee (1912) following the sinking of the Titanic.
Two years later, a range of composers including Claude Debussy and Edward Elgar contributed to King Albert’s Book, a collection assembled by the Daily Telegraph in tribute to Albert I of Belgium, and the invasion of his country.
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