During the Great War, British composer Edward Elgar had composed several pieces meant to rally the spirits of the British people, including a series of patriotic songs called Fringes of the Fleet, with words by Rudyard Kipling. Nothing in these pieces were to suggest the severe change the Elgar sound would undergo as the war went on, but in the aftermath of the war, battling sickness, depression, and loss, Elgar's severely changed outlook on life was all to evident in his first major composition following WW1, his 2nd cello concerto.
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