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Olivier Messiaen (1908 -1992) completed his string quartet "Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps" in 1940/41 in the prisoner of war camp in Görlitz - where the premiere also took place with himself at the piano and other camp inmates on violin, cello and clarinet.

The "Quartet for the End of the World" is musically and tonally inspired by birdsong. The 7th movement of this work gives its name to the program of "Kammer_Spiel", the chamber music series of the JDPH.

For the ballet Le Revue de Cuisine by Bohuslav Martinu, an entertaining work with complex time changes and jazzy influences, the instrumentation is expanded to include bassoon and trumpet. The different timbres of the instrumentation are highlighted in the trio for trumpet, violin and piano by US composer Eric Ewazen (*1954).
The German-Bohemian-Jewish composer Erwin Schulhof (1894-1942) was one of the most experimental personalities of the 1920s and 1930s. In Bassnachtigall, one of the very few solo pieces for contrabassoon, the "intellectual horn-rimmed glasses wearers" in the audience are mocked in a spoken epilogue.

Photo: Shana Uitz

5.2., 7:30 p.m.

Romanfabrik, Hanauer Landstraße 186, Frankfurt

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