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- In 1921 Messiaen won first prize in organ playing at the Paris Conservatoire studying with Marcel Dupré, followed in 1930 with first prize in composition with Paul Dukas. The Diptyque, composed in 1930, is dedicated jointly to “My two teachers Paul Dukas and Marcel Dupré.”
- A diptych is the title given to a work of painting or sculpture composed of two panels facing each other. Each part is a complete work in itself, but when presented together they form a larger fully integrated work whose subjects are similar and/or complementary.
- The Imitation of Christ (De imitatione Christi), a noted Christian text, was published anonymously c. 1418 and is now widely believed to have been written by Thomas à Kempis.
- In 1940/41 Messiaen arranged this second part (beginning on p. 8, m. 13) for piano and violin and included it as the last movement of the Quatuor pour le Fin du Temps, where it has the title Louange à l'Immortalité de Jésus [Praise to the Immortality of Jesus]. In the Quatuor it is transposed up a minor third.
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