| Popis: |
As opposed to Schaeffer and Poulenc, Olivier Messiaen had no need slowly to distance himself from Vichy, having rejected the regime from the beginning. Like many of his fellows in a German prisoner-of-war camp, he rather chose to support another devout Catholic and patriot, Charles de Gaulle. As did other Catholic nonconformists, he grasped the implications of their dictum of subjective spiritual agency, or truth that is obtained not through obeisance to church doctrine but through the soul’s immediate contact with scripture. Messiaen expressed this through several of his wartime compositions, and although he, like Sartre (who similarly espoused subjective authenticity), was never formally a member of the Resistance, its intellectual groupings perceived his implicit opposition to compromise and lauded his works. |
