Wroclaw | For the beginning and the end of time

During the concert on the 21^th April 2022 at 7 p.m. two quartets by Zygmunt Krauze and Olivier Messiaen will be performed at the National Forum of Music in Wrocław by instrumentalists: Annelien Van Wauwe, Radosław Pujanek, Benedict Klöckner and José Gallardo. Works related to deep personal experiences take a special place both in the biographies of composers and in the entire history of music.

Quatuor pour la naissance for clarinet, violin, cello and piano by Zygmunt Krauze was written in special circumstances - its composition was inspired by the birth of the son of the composer. The premiere of the work took place in 1985 in Paris. Since then the work has appeared frequently in the repertoire alongside the Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time created over forty years earlier.

Quatuor pour la fin du temps is one of the greatest musical works of the twentieth century and at the same time it is one of the most important achievements of Messiaen who composed the quartet in the winter of 1940 and 1941, while being imprisoned in the German Stalag VIII A camp in Görlitz. 

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