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    La Nativité du Seigneur, neuf méditations pour orgue (The Nativity of the Lord, nine meditations for organ or The Birth of the Saviour) is a work for...
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    life in mental institutions. In 1934, Messiaen released his first major work for organ, La Nativité du Seigneur. He wrote a followup four years later...
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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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    and blessed eternity) is a piece for organ by French composer Olivier Messiaen. Messiaen became acquainted of Charles Quef, the then organist at the Trinité...
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  • Barrientos Prodromos Symeonidis Mako Okamoto Olivier Messiaen competition (2003) Concours internationaux de la Ville de Paris Portals: Music classical music...
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    Griffiths suggests that the piece was written contemporaneously with La nativité du Seigneur. The scholar Christopher Brent Murray, on the other hand, believes...
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  • exotiques (Exotic birds) is a piece for piano and small orchestra by Olivier Messiaen. It was written between 5 October 1953 and 3 January 1956 and was commissioned...
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    Poèmes pour Mi (category Song cycles by Olivier Messiaen)
    Mi) 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...
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  • Réveil des oiseaux (category Compositions by Olivier Messiaen)
    by Olivier Messiaen for piano and orchestra written in 1953. Messiaen invoked birdsong in this composition, as he had in the earlier Quatuor pour la fin...
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    Éclairs sur l'Au-Delà... (category Compositions by Olivier Messiaen)
    (Lightning Over the Beyond... ) is the final completed work of the composer Olivier Messiaen. Scored for a very large orchestra of over a hundred players and unusually...
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  • Les Corps glorieux (category Compositions by Olivier Messiaen)
    Olivier Messiaen, combining features of both Indian classical music and Gregorian chant. The work, together with L'Ascension (1934) and La Nativité du...
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    Jeanne Demessieux (category Grand Prix du Disque winners)
    Saint Esprit op. 6), Tierces (Six Études op. 5); O. Messiaen: Dieu parmi nous (La Nativité du Seigneur); J. Demessieux: Improvisation on the Choral "O großer...
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  • Chants de Terre et de Ciel (category Song cycles by Olivier Messiaen)
    and piano by Olivier Messiaen, on text by the composer himself. It was composed in 1938 and premiered at the Société Triton's Concerts du Triton, at the...
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  • CD. Collection Grandes Orgues Vol. 4: Messiaen/Cochereau. Olivier Messiaen: Excerpts from La Nativité du Seigneur; Le banquet céleste; Apparition de l’eglise...
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  • Cantéyodjayâ (category Compositions by Olivier Messiaen)
    Cantéyodjayâ is a work for piano by the French composer Olivier Messiaen, written in 1949. The form of the work's single movement exhibits aspects of sonata-form...
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  • with Olivier Messiaen in 1936 and was responsible for organising the first complete performance in England of Messiaen's La Nativité du Seigneur, played...
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  • Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, gave the first performance of Olivier Messiaen's La Nativité du Seigneur. Between 1927 and 1937 he seconded Tournemire at the organ...
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    church hosted England's first complete performance of Olivier Messiaen's La Nativité du Seigneur, organised by Felix Aprahamian and played by the composer...
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  • Lied von der Erde Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage The Hebrides La Nativite du Seigneur (The Nativity of Our Lord), strongly programmatic series of organ...
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    Musici; 1991) Olivier Messiaen. La Nativité Du Seigneur (Calig; 1993) Olivier Messiaen, Maurice Duruflé, Charles Tournemire. Messe De La Pentecôte (Calig;...
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  • his obituary of Benoit that in addition to music, Benoit - much like Olivier Messiaen - had a great love for plants and animals. He liked to take walks in...
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  • convention that some composers follow (e.g., Olivier Messiaen, in his La Nativité du Seigneur and Quatuor pour la fin du temps) is to simply omit the time signature...
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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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    Freiburg in Germany. He also studied privately with Luigi Nono and Olivier Messiaen. Most influential among his composition teachers have been Klaus Huber...
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  • Aarhus and she was the first in the place to perform La Nativité du Seigneur by Olivier Messiaen. Krogh joined the Holmen Church as its organist in 1964...
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  • Feuillets inédits (category Compositions by Olivier Messiaen)
    Feuillets inédits ("unpublished pages") are four disregarded works by Olivier Messiaen arranged and revised for piano and ondes Martenot by Yvonne Loriod...
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    Schönberg, Variationen für Orchester, op. 31 1938, London, Olivier Messiaen, La Nativité du Seigneur 1942, San Francisco, Paul Hindemith, Symphonie in Es 1946...
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  • Messiaen, Olivier Le Banquet Céleste (1928) Diptyque (1929) Apparition de l'église éternelle (1931) L'Ascension (1933) – 4 méditations La Nativité du...
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  • Washington National Cathedral, where he performed Olivier Messiaen's work La Nativité du Seigneur on 18 December 2011. In 2019 he succeeded Daniel Hyde...
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  • Milhaud, Maurice Duruflé’s Scherzo op. 2, as well as La Nativité du Seigneur by Olivier Messiaen (the first integral performance of this organ cycle,...
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