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 | | Rejected by the army on medical grounds, he volunteered as a truck driver and was additionally pressed into service as a de facto medical orderly. |
 | | The music's air of dignified calm may well be the product of, and a direct reaction to, the composer's traumatizing wartime experiences which, characteristically, he downplays in his correspondence, and the recent death of his mother, to whom he was obsessively attached. |
 | | The first performance of the piano suite was given in 1919 by Marguerite Long, whose late husband, Capt. Joseph de Marliave, an eminent musicologist, received the dedication of Toccata, which because of its entirely pianistic nature is not included in the four-movement orchestral score. |
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