Role of Music in World War II - Songs, Compositions and Others Written After The War

Songs, Compositions and Others Written After The War

• Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, by Krzysztof Penderecki in 1960
• From Here to Eternity by George Duning and Morris Stoloff was nominated for an Academy Award for best musical score.
• The Hiroshima Symphony, by Erkki Aaltonen in 1949
• A Survivor from Warsaw, by Arnold Schönberg describes the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
• Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in C Major was nicknamed the Leningrad Symphony.
• Cabaret (musical) - Musical produced and directed by Hal Prince in 1966, tells the of the rise to power of the Nazi. It contained a song about the rise of Nazis, Tomorrow belongs to Me.
• Mel Brooks' The Producers is famous for perhaps the strangest song about World War II, "Springtime for Hitler".
• Last King Tiger by Ignitor is about the Russian invasion to Berlin and the fall of the Reich.
• When the Tigers Broke Free,Bring the Boys Back Home and other songs by Pink Floyd.