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WW1 Composers

Cecil Coles

A friend of Holst, to whom Coles sent compositions from the trenches in case he didn’t make it home. He died in 1918.

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Gustav Holst

Unable to enlist due to his poor eyesight, Holst spent the war years in England composing his most celebrated work, The Planets.

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George Butterworth

Lover of folk songs and morris dancing, the young composer tragically lost his life during the Battle of the Somme, aged 31.

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