Four great European classical music composers that lost their lives during WWI were the inspiration for the conductor Byron Fidetzi to come up with a programthat will be presented to the public on Wednesday 25th of January at 20:30′ by the ERT Orchestra at the Athens Concesrt Hall (Megaro Musikis).

“I thought of a program that will would capture with the most direct way the European tragedy of a war that was meant to be the cradle of all the disasters that followed in the 20th century.

The first piece will be Enrique Granadοs’ “Intermezzo” fro the opera Goyescas.The composer went to New York on 1916 for the premiere with his wife and on their way back their ship was torpedoed killing both of them.

The second piece is from the English composer George Butterworth with the title “A Shropshire Lad”. The young composer was killed by a sniper during the battle of Some.

The next one will be “Music for violin and Orchestra” of the German composer Rudi Stephan, a great hope of the German music who was killed in Galicia. Very few of his works have survived, especially after his father’s house was bombed to the ground during WWII.

The last piece is Symphony No.3 of the French composer Alberic Magnard. Due to the fact that he was wealthy enough (his father was the director of the newspaper “Figaro”), he was publishing his works himself, until one day his house was demolished by a German tank with him and a lot of his work gone forever.