French composer who wrote the ambitious twenty-movement piano cycle 'Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus' during the German occupation of Paris in 1944, rooted in his Catholic faith.
"Messiaen said of the premiere: 'Never had I been listened to with so much attention and understanding.' For many of the attendees, they had never listened to chamber music of any kind."
"This twenty-movement, two-and-a-half hour piano cycle was written in Paris between March 23 and September 8, 1944, during the German occupation of France. Supplies of food and water were limited and the streets of Paris were occupied by enemy soldiers. There was fighting in the streets and regular c"
"This twenty-movement, two-and-a-half hour piano cycle was written in Paris between March 23 and September 8, 1944, during the German occupation of France."