Title: Chants des déportés
English title: Songs of the Deported
Genre: choral/orchestra
Composition Date: 1945
Publisher: Leduc
Instrumentation: ST chorus, orchestra.
Duration: 8'
Premiere: 2 November 1945, Théâtre National du Palais de Chaillot (Orchestre National et Chœurs de la Radiodiffusion Française; Manuel Rosenthal, director)
Dedication: unknown
Movements: unknown
Notes:
  • Commissioned by Radio-France to celebrate the liberation of concentration camps and their prisoners.
  • Believed lost by Messiaen, but rediscovered in 1991 in Radio France archives. [H&S, p. 162]
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