The Miracle of Stalag 8A is a retelling of the fascinating story of
Olivier Messiaen's composition of his Quartet for the End of Time.
Set in France & Germany from 1939 to 1941, Messiaen served in
the French army, was captured at Verdun, and sent to Stalag 8A in
Gorlitz, Germany, where he composed the great work, The Quartet for
the End of Time. The enigmatic Messiaen, an avant-garde composer
and also a devout Catholic, along with Etienne Pasquier, an
agnostic cellist, Henri Akoka, a Jewish Trotskyite Clarinetist, and
Jean le Boulaire, an atheistic violinist, become the famous quartet
of Stalag 8A. These four very different men collaborated to create
musical history in the most unlikely of places. Messiaen's Quartet,
composed in a Stalag, transforms man's inhumanity to man with hope.
Yet to the avant-garde, he was too traditional and too religious;
to the traditionalists and religious, he was too avant-garde. As a
result he will always stand somewhere outside of Time. The first
performance of the Quartet for the End of Time at Stalag 8A in
January 1941 has become, in the words of Paul Griffiths, "one of
the great stories of twentieth-century music."
General
| Imprint: |
Bird Brain Productions
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
August 2010 |
| First published: |
August 2010 |
| Authors: |
John William McMullen
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
|
| Pages: |
242 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-9826255-3-8 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
| LSN: |
0-9826255-3-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780982625538 |
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