Continuing with the theme of likely endless poor analogies to remaking European war blunders, here is Ravel’s La Valse, written immediately after WWI and of which some have claimed:

“Whether or not it was intended as a metaphor for the predicament of European civilization in the aftermath of the Great War, its one-movement design plots the birth, decay and destruction of a musical genre: the waltz.”[1]

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