Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time has an impressive history.
Messiaen was captured by the German army in June 1940 and incarcerated in a prisoner-of-war camp in Gorlitz, now part of Poland. Fellow prisoners were clarinetist Henri Akoka, violinist Jean le Boulaire and cellist Etienne Pasquier.
He managed to get some paper and a pencil from a sympathetic guard and wrote a trio, which was then expanded into a quartet, with Messiaen playing the piano.
The quartet wa…
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