![]() This produced an immediate burst of creativity from Messiaen: as Pasquier later recalled, “Messiaen composed a solo clarinet piece for Akoka which was to become the third movement of the Quatuor – ‘Abîme des oiseaux’.” There he met other musicians, including the clarinettist Henri Akoka and the cellist Etienne Pasquier. In May 1940 the German army entered France, and Messiaen was among the thousands of French soldiers rounded up by the Germans: he was taken to a makeshift camp in a huge field to the west of Nancy. ![]() Inspired by the visionary language of the Apocalypse, evoked in the movement titles, Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du Temps is one of the most remarkable works to have come out of World War II, composed by a musician whose religious faith was a constant inspiration, even in the most arduous circumstances.
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