Academic Music - Mia Feigelsons FB Gallery December 10: on Oliver Messiaens birth anniversary Dance of fury, for the seven trumpets Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes from Quartet for the End of Time Quatuor pour la fin du temps (premiered, 1941) By Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), French composer and pianist who was a preeminent driving force in contemporary music from pre-WWII through to the 1990’s when he died. Piano: Peter Serkin, American (b.1947) Clarinet: Richard Stoltzman, American (b.1942) Violin: Ida Kavafian, Turkish classical violinist and violist (b. 1952) Cello: Fred Sherry, American (b.1948) #messiaen #quartetfortheendoftime #quatourpourlafindutemps The most ethereally beautiful music of the twentieth century was first heard on a brutally cold January night in 1941, at the Stalag VIIIA prisoner-of-war camp, in Görlitz, Germany. The composer was Olivier Messiaen, the work Quartet for the End of Time.. Messiaen wrote most of it after being captured as a French soldier during the German invasion of 1940. The première took place in an unheated space in Barrack 27. A fellow-inmate drew up a program in Art Nouveau style, to which an official stamp was affixed: Stalag VIIIA 49 geprüft. Sitting in the front row—and shivering along with the prisoners—were the German officers of the camp. therestisnoise/2004/04/quartet_for_the_2.html Movement VI: Dance of fury, for the seven trumpets Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes Of the eight movements, Movement VI is scored for the full quartet of Bb clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. The work is a monody, which means the instruments play in unison or octaves, and features the aforementioned “apocalypse angel” which is meant to proclaim the end of space and time (at the end of the movement). Messiaen’s religious convictions are evidenced in the form of the work jonathandimond/downloadables/Theory%20of%20Music-Messiaen.pdf
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