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Rebus (1940)
Oration (Concerto elegiaco) (1930)*
Allegro moderato (1940-41)
Lament (1915)
A Prayer (1916-18)†

Writing in The Sunday Telegraph on 17 November 1963, Benjamin Britten recalled that a lot of his pacifist feelings, especially about World War I, came from his first teacher, Frank Bridge, whose pacifism he described as being typically gentle. Bridge’s response to the carnage of the 1914–18 War grew out of the loss of so many of his close friends and colleagues: the violinist Thomas Morris, for example, who led Bridge’s English String Quartet, and composers such as Frederick Kelly, and Earnest Farrar to whose memory the tempestuous Piano Sonata (1921– 24) is dedicated. Bridge’s pacifism was an emotional rather than an intellectual matter, full of complexities and contradictions, particularly in the 1930s when the threat arose of another war with Germany.

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