Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (UK: /ˈmɛsiæ̃/, US: /mɛˈsjæ̃, meɪˈsjæ̃, mɛˈsjɒ̃/; French: [ɔlivje øʒɛn pʁɔspɛʁ ʃaʁl mɛsjɑ̃]; 10 December 1908 –...
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Cécile Sauvage (category Olivier Messiaen)
based in Saint-Étienne. The journal's editor, Pierre Messiaen, was struck by the composition; Messiaen and Sauvage entered into correspondence that blossomed...
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the first prize at the international Olivier Messiaen Competition. In 1977, at the invitation of Pierre Boulez, he became a founding member of the Ensemble...
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organ by the French composer Olivier Messiaen, composed in 1951–52. A major work of Messiaen, its place in Messiaen's output can be compared to that of Bach's...
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Simeone, Nigel (2005). Messiaen. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10907-8. Hopkins, G.W. (2001). "Boulez, Pierre". Grove Music Online...
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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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Yvonne Louise Georgette Loriod-Messiaen (French pronunciation: [ivɔn lɔʁjo] ; 20 January 1924 – 17 May 2010) was a French pianist, teacher, and composer...
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Alban Berg, Pierre Boulez and Olivier Messiaen, but for parts requiring only a four-octave xylophone (Blades and Holland n.d.). However, Pierre Boulez wrote...
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Vinci 2,000 Francs 1942 Pierre-Georget Le Chesnais Œuvres d'Henrik Ibsen The Works of Henrik Ibsen 2,000 Francs 1942 Pierre Messiaen Tragédies de Shakespeare...
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Oiseaux exotiques (redirect from Exotic birds (Messiaen))
small orchestra by Olivier Messiaen. It was written between 5 October 1953 and 3 January 1956 and was commissioned by Pierre Boulez. It is dedicated to...
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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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Turangalîla-Symphonie by Olivier Messiaen as well as other works by him. The Ondes Martenot was also used by other composers such as Andre Jolivet, Pierre Boulez, Arthur...
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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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Saint François d'Assise (category Operas by Olivier Messiaen)
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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where she was a student of Olivier Messiaen and gave the first performances of early works for piano by Pierre Boulez. She later gave up her career...
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Pyotr Suvchinsky (redirect from Pierre Suvchinsky)
active in musical circles and a champion of the music of Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez in the post-war period; he was a co-founder, with Boulez and...
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Conservatory with Pierre Sancan, winning the 1st prize in 1966. In 1967 he made his Paris debut and won 1st prize in the Messiaen competition in Royan...
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Britten, John Cage, Aaron Copland, Ernst Krenek, György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, Arvo Pärt, Walter Piston, Ned Rorem, Alfred Schnittke, Ruth Crawford Seeger...
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Pierre Sancan (24 October 1916 – 20 October 2008) was a French composer, pianist, teacher and conductor. Along with Olivier Messiaen and Henri Dutilleux...
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music, now called noise music. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen, and Félix Passerone at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1938 to 1948. Between...
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musical heritage that includes Fauré and Debussy as well as Poulenc and Messiaen, and a French cultural legacy that includes Catholicism and the Order of...
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represented at its concerts included Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Olivier Messiaen, Luciano Berio, John Cage, Sylvano Bussotti, Mauricio Kagel, Hans Werner...
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Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal (7 January 1922 – 20 May 2000) was a French flautist. Rampal popularised the flute in the post–World War II years, recovering...
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Solstice, 1985. FYCD 118. 1 CD. Pierre Cochereau: L'organiste de Notre-Dame. Works by J. S. Bach, César Franck, Olivier Messiaen, Marcel Dupré, and Rouget de...
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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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Catalogue d'oiseaux (category Compositions by Olivier Messiaen)
for the concerts of the "Domaine musical" organized by Pierre Boulez. For these pieces, Messiaen did not want to be limited to the evocation of the bird...
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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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Paris, at the Festival de Beaune and at the Messiaen au pays de la Meije [fr], where she was invited by Pierre Boulez in 2012. She has also sung in Villers-sur-Mer...
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teachers including Messiaen and Milhaud . Misato Mochizuki this teacher's teachers Meerts (1800–1863) studied with teachers including Pierre Baillot and Jean-Henri...
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Poèmes pour Mi (category Song cycles by Olivier Messiaen)
is a song cycle for dramatic soprano and piano or orchestra by Olivier Messiaen, composed in 1936 and 1937 and dedicated to his first wife, Claire Delbos...
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