For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet by Rebecca Rischin

For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet


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ISBN: 9780801472978 | 224 pages | 12 Mb

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For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet Rebecca Rischin
Publisher: Cornell University Press


Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was one of the great composers of the twentieth century. The premiere of the French composer's Quartet for the End of Time on January 15, 1941 at -4 degrees Fahrenheit in Stalag VIII A, a Nazi prison camp, has been called one of the great stories of twentieth-century music. A devout Catholic with an interest in mysticism and the supernatural, Messiaen was also a poet and an accomplished amateur ornithologist. He mixed sounds as a painter mixes colors, associating specific shades with certain modes and chords. This book is the first comprehensive history of the composition and premiere of the Quartet for the End of ...

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