Composers who were prisoners during World War II generally never saw their work performed or receive the attention it might have had in other times. “Italian researchers hope thousands of nearly forgotten works will find new life as they assemble a library of music composed or played in those dark places between 1933 and 1945. ‘We are trying to right a great wrong: These musicians were hoping for a musical life for themselves, and they would have had it if their destiny had been different’.”