Messiaen: Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps
by Anthony Pople
This book is about one musical work, the popular Quartet for the End of Time by the great French composer Olivier Messiaen. Like virtually all of his works, the Quartet combines the striking technical achievement of Messiaen's rich and attractive musical style with a deeply felt theological inspiration. Anthony Pople's book provides an introduction to Messiaen's style through an examination of this great work, showing how it came to be composed while Messiaen was a prisoner-of-war and premiered under extraordinary conditions in Stalag VIIIA in 1941. He gives an in-depth assessment of each of its eight movements.
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This book is about one musical work, the popular Quartet for the End of Time by the great French composer Olivier Messiaen. Like virtually all of his works, the Quartet combines the striking technical achievement of Messiaen's rich and attractive musical style with a deeply felt theological inspiration. Anthony Pople's book provides an introduction to Messiaen's style through an examination of this great work, showing how it came to be composed while Messiaen was a prisoner-of-war and premiered under extraordinary conditions in Stalag VIIIA in 1941. He gives an in-depth assessment of each of its eight movements.
Author Biography
Anthony Pople is Professor of Music at the University of Nottingham. He is author of two Cambridge Music Handbooks - Berg: Violin Concerto and Messiaen: Quatuor pour la Fin de Temps and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Berg.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. 'Liturgie de cristal'; 2. 'Vocalise, pour l'Ange qui annonce la fin du temps'; 3. 'Abime des oiseaux'; 4. 'Intermede'; 5. 'Louange a l'eternite de Jesus'; 6. 'Danse de la fureur, pour les septs trompettes'; 7. 'Fouillis d'arcs-en-ciel, pour l'Ange qui annonce la fin du temps'; 8. 'Louange a l'Immortalite de Jesus'; 9. Contexts.
Review
'An excellent guide to the Quatuor with an enlightening analysis of the music.' BBC Music Magazine "Recommended for all music libraries." Choice
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"Recommended for all music libraries." Choice
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An examination of the popular Quartet for the End of Time by Olivier Messiaen.
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This book is about the popular Quartet for the End of Time by Messiaen, which was first performed in 1941. The book describes how the work was composed in a prisoner-of-war camp and discusses the music in detail. Like most of Messiaen's music, the Quartet is strongly Christian in inspiration.
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This book is about the popular Quartet for the End of Time by Messiaen, which was first performed in 1941. The book describes how the work was composed in a prisoner-of-war camp and discusses the music in detail. Like most of Messiaen's music, the Quartet is strongly Christian in inspiration.
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