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In his violin concerto, writes Graeme Skinner, “…Korngold remained faithful to his aim ‘that music should be melodic’, ‘wohllautend’ (well-sounding), and ‘conceived in the heart’.”

“The guitar makes the dreams weep,” Poulenc inscribed above the central movement of his Violin Sonata, completed under Nazi occupation.

Stravinsky’s Circus Polka was commissioned for the Barnum and Bailey circus. Despite the elephants’ apparent distaste, the act was repeated 425 times.