Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (UK: /ˈmɛsiæ̃/, US: /mɛˈsjæ̃, meɪˈsjæ̃, mɛˈsjɒ̃/; French: [ɔlivje øʒɛn pʁɔspɛʁ ʃaʁl mɛsjɑ̃]; 10 December 1908...
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compositions by Olivier Messiaen. Works are listed initially by genre and can be sorted chronologically by clicking on the "Date" header. Messiaen's compositions...
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Ginastera, Yvonne Loriod, Bruno Maderna, Gian Francesco Malipiero, and Olivier Messiaen. Peter Allen John Burke Eli-Eri Moura this teacher's teachers Larchet...
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for piano by the French composer Olivier Messiaen composed in 1928–1929, when the composer was 20 years old. Messiaen considered it to be his first work...
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Turangalîla-Symphonie (category Compositions by Olivier Messiaen)
The Turangalîla-Symphonie is the only symphony by Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992). It was written for an orchestra of large forces from 1946 to 1948 on a...
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consisted of nine notes and was inspired by French composer Olivier Messiaen and his Messiaen modes, namely Mode 3. Quayle said, "I started playing around...
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Mode of limited transposition (redirect from Messiaen modes)
transpositions are "limited". They were compiled by the French composer Olivier Messiaen, and published in his book La technique de mon langage musical ("The...
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The Olivier Messiaen Competition is an international contemporary piano competition organized by the City of Paris in homage to the French composer Olivier...
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L'Ascension (category Compositions by Olivier Messiaen)
pipe organ in 1933–1934. The work was written by the French composer Olivier Messiaen from 1932 to 1933 in Paris, Neuchâtel, and Monaco. It was premièred...
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French pianist, teacher, and composer, and the second wife of composer Olivier Messiaen. Her sister was the Ondes Martenot player Jeanne Loriod. Loriod was...
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renowned for his performances of the works of Olivier Messiaen and has recorded the complete organ works of Messiaen for Deutsche Grammophon. Latry is also considered...
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Claire Delbos (redirect from Claire Messiaen)
was a French violinist and composer, and first wife of the composer Olivier Messiaen. Delbos was born in Paris, the daughter of a Sorbonne professor, Victor...
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voiced by Katey Sagal, is named after the Turangalîla-Symphonie by Olivier Messiaen. She is one of the few characters in the cast to routinely display...
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Quatuor pour la fin du temps (category Compositions by Olivier Messiaen)
is an eight-movement piece of chamber music by the French composer Olivier Messiaen. It was premiered in 1941. The work is scored for clarinet (in B-flat)...
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strongly influenced a wide range of composers including Béla Bartók, Olivier Messiaen, George Benjamin, and the jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans. Debussy...
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Saint François d'Assise (category Operas by Olivier Messiaen)
d'Assise, is an opera in three acts and eight scenes by French composer Olivier Messiaen, who was also its librettist; written from 1975 to 1979, with orchestration...
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List of program music (section Olivier Messiaen)
Program music is a term applied to any musical composition on the classical music tradition in which the piece is designed according to some preconceived...
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and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The first and last were both pupils of Olivier Messiaen. An important aesthetic philosophy as well as a group of compositional...
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Ocean drum (category Olivier Messiaen)
invented by Olivier Messiaen in 1972. The ocean drum was originally called the geophone. It was invented by composer and ornithologist Olivier Messiaen for his...
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Paul Kim (pianist) (section Olivier Messiaen)
composer Olivier Messiaen. Among Kim's most notable achievements is his seven CD recording series comprising the complete piano works of Messiaen, released...
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Catalogue d'oiseaux (category Compositions by Olivier Messiaen)
Catalogue d'oiseaux ("Catalogue of birds") is a work for piano solo by Olivier Messiaen consisting of thirteen pieces, written between October 1956 and September...
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used in more than 100 orchestral compositions. The French composer Olivier Messiaen used it in pieces such as his 1949 symphony Turangalîla-Symphonie,...
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(1763–1817) Félicien Menu de Ménil (1860–1930) Max Méreaux (born 1946) Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992) Jean-Christian Michel (born 1938) Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)...
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Quatre Études de rythme (category Compositions by Olivier Messiaen)
rythme (Four Rhythm Studies) is a set of four piano compositions by Olivier Messiaen, written in 1949 and 1950. A performance of them lasts between 15 and...
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repertoire. They recorded their first album, Les Visions de l'Amen of Olivier Messiaen, under the artistic direction of the composer, and continued to perform...
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dramatic" soprano and piano whose music and libretto were composed by Olivier Messiaen in 1945. They are considered to be the first part of his Tristan trilogy...
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called for a 'xylorimba', including Alban Berg, Pierre Boulez and Olivier Messiaen, but for parts requiring only a four-octave xylophone (Blades and Holland...
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für Musik Köln and the University of Cologne, later studying with Olivier Messiaen in Paris and with Werner Meyer-Eppler at the University of Bonn. As...
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Conservatoire. In the same year, he won the first prize at the international Olivier Messiaen Competition. In 1977, at the invitation of Pierre Boulez, he became...
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composers Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, 20th-century composers Olivier Messiaen and Luc Ferrari, and the 21st-century composer Anna Meredith. The track...
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