Music in the time of the great war / Accentus Music in co-production with WDR presents ; a film by Andreas Morell ; producer, Lars Reimer ; producer WDR, Lothar Mattner ; produced by Paul Smaczny ; a production of Accentus Music ; in co-production with WDR.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Morell, Andreas, director.

Reimer, Lars, producer, screenwriter.

Mattner, Lothar, producer.

Smaczny, Paul, 1957- producer.

ACCENTUS Music (Firm), production company.

Westdeutscher Rundfunk, production company.

Qwest TV, publisher.

Language:

English

German

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Music and the war.

World War, 1914-1918.

Music--Political aspects--Europe.

Music.

Composers--Europe.

Composers.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Feature films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (55 minutes)

Other Title:

Music, power, war and revolution. Part I

Music in the times of the great war

Place of Publication:

Paris, France : Qwest TV, 2016.

Language Note:

In English and German.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

1914 and many of Europe's finest composers find themselves caught up in the flurry of patriotism and national fervour, quickly joining up to fight. Those who survived were irrevocably changed. Ravel was a truck driver close to the front, Schoenberg trained soldiers and Berg was in active service. This captivating documentary by Andreas Morell, the first in the series Music, Power, War and Revolution, explores how the war impacted these men and their musical output. This film looks at works such as Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin and Berg's Wozzeck, pieces which almost certainly, would not have come to fruition, had it not been for the war. Morrel also touches sensitively on those composers, whose lives were so cruelly cut short. Interviews with historian Philipp Blom, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard and conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner make for a deeply insightful film. Rachel Rowntree.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed July 03, 2025).

OCLC:

1531301282