Olivier Messiaen's "Quatuor pour la fin du temps" reflects the harrowing circumstances of its creation: the composer wrote the monumental work as a prisoner in the POW camp near Görlitz. Lost in the Stars" from Kurt Weill's musical of the same name, composed in American exile, offers a conciliatory outlook.
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
"Quatuor pour la fin du temps" for violin, clarinet, violoncello and piano (1940)
Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
"Lost in the Stars" for voice and piano from the musical of the same name (1948)
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