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The miracle of Stalag 8A : beauty beyond the horror : Olivier Messiaen and the Quatour pour la fin du temps "Quartet for the end of time" / by John William McMullen.

Publication | Library Call Number: PS3613.C58548 M57 2010

A fictional retelling of French composer Olivier Messiaen's composition and performance of his "Quartet for the end of time" in a German prisoner-of-war camp in World War II.

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Variant Title: Beauty beyond the horror : Olivier Messiaen and the Quatour pour la fin du temps, "Quartet for the end of time"
Olivier Messiaen and the Quatour pour la fin du temps "Quartet for the end of time"
Olivier Messiaen and the Quartet for the end of time
Format: Book
Author/Creator: McMullen, John William.
Published: Evansville, Ind. : Bird Brain Publishing, c2010
Locale: France
Germany
Görlitz (Dresden, Germany)
Language: English

Physical Description: 228 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 9780982625521
0982625529 (pbk.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-219).
Subjects: Composers--France--Fiction.
Prisoners of war as musicians--Germany--Fiction.
Prisoners of war as musicians--France--Fiction.
Prisoners of war--Germany--Fiction.
Prisoner-of-war camps--Germany--Fiction.
Music--First performances--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Prisoners and prisons--Fiction.
Görlitz (Dresden, Germany)--History--Fiction.
Messiaen, Olivier,--1908-1992--Fiction.
Messiaen, Olivier,--1908-1992.--Quatuor pour la fin du temps.
Stalag VIII A Görlitz--Fiction.
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