![]() ![]() ![]() The title does not exaggerate the ambitions of the piece. ” Sitting in the front row-and shivering along with the prisoners-were the German officers of the camp. A fellow-inmate drew up a program in Art Nouveau style, to which an official stamp was affixed: “ Stalag VIIIA 49 geprüft. The première took place in an unheated space in Barrack 27. 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 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. "Louange à l'éternité de Jésus," live performance from the Banff Centre, May 24, 2007, with Matt Haimovitz, cello, and Frederic Chiu, piano. ![]()
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