Sunday, January 6, 2013

Quartet for the End of Time

French composer Olivier Messiaen wrote this while imprisoned in Stalag VIIIA German prisoner-of-war camp in Görlitz in the winter of 1941.

http://grooveshark.com/album/Quartet+For+The+End+Of+Time/2623576  (grooveshark playlist)

Music unchained, born in a Nazi prison.   How in the world.

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