The impact of WWII on the music composed after by those children who lived through it

[Boilk]

I often wonder what Sibelius would have made of the computer named after him.

I think SA meant...

I often wonder what Sibelius would have made of the computer [music notation software] named after him.

Clicking on the red text takes one to their site.

[3rd Viennese School]

I currently have 479,001,600 pop tunes on my desk at home.
Its going to take AGES!

3VS

[Petrushka]

Returning to Am51's original point there is one composer whi lived through the Second World War as a child and wrote a piece in which his memories play a part.
The work in question is St Thomas Wake - A Foxtrot for Orchestra by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

Max has spoken of his childhood memories of being in the air raid shelter while Manchester was being bombed and listening at the same time to dance band records on a gramophone. If you listen to the piece it's all there...