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title: "The Miracle of Stalag 8A (Stalag VIII-A) - Beauty Beyond the Horror: Olivier Messiaen and the Quartet for the End of Time"
brand: "john william mcmullen"
price: "VT12829"
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# The Miracle of Stalag 8A (Stalag VIII-A) - Beauty Beyond the Horror: Olivier Messiaen and the Quartet for the End of Time

**Brand:** john william mcmullen
**Price:** VT12829
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- **What is this?** The Miracle of Stalag 8A (Stalag VIII-A) - Beauty Beyond the Horror: Olivier Messiaen and the Quartet for the End of Time by john william mcmullen
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## Customer Reviews

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    Oliver Messian
  

*by T***M on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 April 2013*

Fans of Messian's music, and he is an acquired taste, will value this biography which reveals something of the personal struggle of the man behind the music. Well written and accessible to the non specialist.

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    Beauty Beyond the Horror
  

*by C***. on Reviewed in the United States on 14 April 2014*

I recommend this book to Christians, musicians/composers and students of World War II history.  Olivier Messiaen was an organist and com,poser who was drafted into the French army in 1940, shortly before the Germans defeated the French and subsequently occupied France.  This book tells a story of the power of faith and music to lift the human spirit above the harshest prison conditions of starvation, hopelessness and extreme cold.  Messiaen composed his famous Quartet for the End of Time while he was a prisoner, and he enlisted three fellow prisoners to perform it with him before an audience of Nazi officers and soldiers, and fellow prisoners.  The miracle in the title will be revealed to those who open the books pages.  A very absorbing story. .

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    John McMullen's powerfully descriptive narrative about Olivier Messiaen's experience, ...
  

*by D***A on Reviewed in the United States on 12 February 2016*

John McMullen's powerfully descriptive narrative about Olivier Messiaen's experience, while confined in a Nazi prison camp, is both compelling and inspiring. Messiaen's survival seemed to lie within his desire to complete an other worldly spiritual and musical message. His accomplished work Quartet at the End of Time allows the listener an opportunity to contemplate the mystery of creation, timelessness and the phenomenon of eternity. I've listened to this unique composition twice and I will listen to it again and again. It is mesmerizing and the book is outstanding.

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