Étienne Pasquier (1905 – 14 December 1997) was a French

cellist The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), tuned i ...

. Pasquier was born on 10 May 1905 in Tours. He entered the Paris Conservatory in 1918 at age 13 and received a first prize in cello in 1921. From 1927, Étienne Pasquier was a member of the Pasquier Trio with his brothers Jean and

Pierre Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

. Pasquier was imprisoned at

Stalag VIII-A Stalag VIII-A was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp, located just to the south of the town of Görlitz in Lower Silesia, east of the River Neisse. The location of the camp lies in today's Polish town of Zgorzelec, which lies over the r ...

during the

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. While there he performed in the 15 January 1941 premiere of ''

Quatuor pour la fin du temps ''Quatuor pour la fin du Temps'' (), originally ''Quatuor de la fin du Temps'' ("''Quartet of the End of Time''"), also known by its English title ''Quartet for the End of Time'', is an eight-movement piece of chamber music by the French composer ...

'' by composer

Olivier Messiaen Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithology, ornithologist. One of the major composers of the 20th-century classical music, 20th century, he was also an ou ...

, also an inmate at the camp, with Jean le Boulaire (violinist) and

Henri Akoka Henri (or Henry) Akoka (23 June 1912 – 22 November 1976) was an Algerian Jewish clarinetist. Biography Akoka was born on 23 June 1912 in Palikao, Algeria, then French territory. He was the second of six children of Abraham Akoka, a trumpet pl ...

(clarinettist). Messiaen and Pasquier were released from the camp less than one month after the premier of the ''Quartet.'' In 1959, the Trio made a tour in Southern Africa.Pasquier Trio, outstanding French Trio
/ref> Étienne Pasquier died on 14 December 1997 at the age of 92.

References

External links

''La musique à Paris sous l'Occupation''

Étienne Pasquier ''Louange à l'Eternité de Jésus'' by Olivier Messiaen
on YouTube {{DEFAULTSORT:Pasquier, Etienne 1905 births 1997 deaths French classical cellists 20th-century French musicians 20th-century French classical musicians 20th-century French cellists