| Messiaen: Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps Contributor(s): Pople, Anthony (Author) |
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ISBN: 1139166921 ISBN-13: 9781139166928 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $213.75 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music |
| Dewey: 785.241 |
| Series: Cambridge Music Handbooks |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |