Who composed the 'Warsaw Concerto'?
Warsaw Concerto Warsaw Concerto The Warsaw Concerto is a short work for piano and orchestra by Richard Addinsell, written for the 1941 British film "Dangerous Moonlight", which is about the Polish struggle against the 1939 invasion by Nazi Germany. In performance it normally lasts just under ten minutes. The concerto is an example of programme music, representing both the struggle for Warsaw and the romance of the leading characters in the film. It became very popular in Britain during World War II. The concerto is written in imitation of the style of Sergei Rachmaninoff. It initiated a trend for similar short piano
Warsaw Concerto resonance that belies its small scale. "Dangerous Moonlight" takes place at the start of World War II and tells the story of a Polish concert pianist and composer, Stefan Radecki (Anton Walbrook) who defends his country by becoming a fighter pilot. After an air raid in Warsaw by the German army, he is discovered by an American reporter, Carol Peters (Sally Gray), practising the piano in a bombed-out building. It is the opening of his "Warsaw Concerto", at this point a work in progress, and the first line he says to her is, "It is not safe to be out