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Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps - Cambridge Music Handbooks Pople, Anthony (University of Southampton)
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps - Cambridge Music Handbooks
Pople, Anthony (University of Southampton)
This book is about the popular Quartet for the End of Time by Messiaen, which was first performed in 1941. The book describes how the work was composed in a prisoner-of-war camp and discusses the music in detail. Like most of Messiaen's music, the Quartet is strongly Christian in inspiration.
128 pages, 2 tables 31 music examples
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 2, 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521584975 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 128 |
| Dimensions | 224 × 147 × 14 mm · 302 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Rushton, Julian |