Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Anthem `The Dove Descending Breaks the Air` for chorus a capella (1962), K096 Download Sheet Music
In 1943 Thomas Stearns Eliot published his volume of poetry entitled The Four Quartets German 1948 Die vier Quartette. The last of these is entitled Little Gidding*. The two stanzas of seven lines of verse each which Strawinsky set to music correspond to the second-last section and depict darkly as is typical of T. S. Eliot that humankind may only atone for its errors and be redeemed from fire by fire.
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