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Olivier Messian – Quartet for the End of Time

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My first idea for today was to go with something from the soundtrack of the film Glory, but I ran into trouble finding a live performance.

So instead I give you Quatuor pour la fin du temps by French pianist and composer Olivier Messiaen. He composed this piece while he was at a German POW camp during World War II, and the unusual combination of instruments is due to being imprisoned with several other musicians--who played clarinet, violin, and cello. The piece had its premiere in January 1941 in the Stalag VIII-A camp, with an audience of about 400 prisoners and German guards.

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