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| | Olivier Messiaen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Messiaen was also influenced by Surrealism, as may be seen from the titles of some of the piano Préludes (Un reflet dans le vent…, "A reflection in the wind") and in some of the imagery of his poetry (he published poems as prefaces to certain works, for example Les offrandes oubliées). | | | In 1932, Messiaen married the violinist and fellow composer Claire Delbos. | | | Messiaen also had a great admiration for the music of Igor Stravinsky, particularly his use of rhythm in earlier works such as The Rite of Spring, and also his use of colour. |
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| | Olivier Messiaen - definition of Olivier Messiaen in Encyclopedia |
| | Olivier Messiaen (December 10, 1908–April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. | | | Many of Messiaen's works are concerned with the Roman Catholic faith (for example Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus), but he also drew inspiration from Hinduism; his Turangalîla Symphony takes its name from two Sanskrit words with manifold meanings, including "time", "play" and "love song". | | | His books of piano pieces, Catalogue d'oiseaux, and his orchestral work, Oiseaux exotiques, are both based on bird song. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Olivier_Messiaen
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| | Messiaen, Olivier on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Messiaen was a pupil of Paul Dukas at the Paris Conservatory. | | | Olivier Messiaen lors de la création de "Saint francois d'Assises" en 1983 Le dixième anniversaire de la mort du composite. | | | Olivier Messiaen, mort il y a dix ans, célébré sur ARTE et par le disque |
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| | The Musical Times: Olivier Messiaen 1908-1992 |
| | Messiaen’s other works from the 30s include the organ cycles La Nativité du Seigneur (1935) and Les Corps Glorieux (1939); in the elaborate preface to the former, Messiaen published his earliest account of his ‘modes of limited transposition’ and non retrogradable rhythms’, and both works display an increasingly developed degree of rhythmic and harmonic independence. | | | In 1962, Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod were married and Messiaen entered upon the final phase of his creative life, in which he attempted ever grander and more monumental summa of his entire musical vocabulary. | | | On his repatriation in 1942, Messiaen was appointed Professor of Harmony at the Paris Conservatoire, where he was to teach numerous distinguished composers and musicians over the next 45 years. |
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http://www.musicaltimes.co.uk/archive/obits/199209messiaen.html
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| | Review Messiaen: Éclairs sur L'Au-delà by Olivier Messiaen |
| | Messiaen's talent was not widely recognized until the advent of his work, Quatour pou la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time), a piece that was written and that saw its premiere in January 1941. | | | In 1931 Messiaen became the organist at Paris' La Trinité church. | | | Inquietude is the central temperamental staple of the third movement, "L'Oiseau-lyre et la Ville-Fiancée." As an avid ornithologist, this movement is a musical evocation of the typical song of the Lyrebird that so powerfully moved Messiaen. |
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| | Organ Composers: Olivier Messiaen |
| | From his birth, French composer Olivier Messiaen was surrounded by the arts. | | | Messiaen was very religious and his music, both organ and other, reflects his extreme faith-bordering on mysticism. | | | Messiaen wrote the two-volume work The Technique of My Musical Language in 1957. |
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http://www.byu.edu/music/areas/keyboard/Organ/composers/messiaen.html
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| | Naxos.com, Your World of Classical Music |
| | Olivier Messiaen has exercised a remarkable influence over composers both in his native France and elsewhere, although his own work is unique in its individuality. | | | Messiaen's musical language is derived from a number of varied sources, including Greek metrical rhythms, Hindu tradition, the serialism of Schoenberg, Debussy and bird-song, with his whole work and life deeply influenced by the spirit of Catholicism. | | | The Catalogue d'oiseaux of 1959 is derived from bird-song, from Le chocard des alpes and Le loriot to Le courlis cendré. |
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http://www.naxos.com/mainsite?pn=Composers&char=M&ComposerID=689
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| | Messiaen's Organ Registration |
| | Messiaen’s writing/registration paints the picture of the "trumpets of the lord". | | | Dieu Parmi Nous was written in 1935 and was influenced by the impressionistic composers Messiaen was working with in France. | | | It is clear that Messiaen had a symbolic sense about each musical composition and made it visual for the performer. |
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| | Born into an educated household, his mother a poet and father a noted translator of Shakespeare, Olivier Messiaen’s early interest in the arts were nurtured and encouraged by his family. | | | Messiaen’s musical language was also greatly influence by his teachers, especially Paul Dukas, whose modal writing had a profound affect. | | | At the same time, Messiaen also became involved with La Jeune France; a group of composers who rejected the cold, formal works of Neo-Classical composers, especially prevalent in France, and instead sought to infuse their pieces with emotion, passion, and colour. |
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http://www.musica.co.uk/composers/Messiaen.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time: Music: Jian Wang,Olivier Messiaen,Myung-Whun Chung,Gil Shaham |
| | Olivier Messiaen: Éclairs sur l'au-delà (Illuminations of the Beyond) ~ Olivier Messiaen | | | Stravinsky called Olivier's music "the slag heap of art" but Stravinsky did have his limits. | | | To a casual audience, Scheonberg and Messiaen might as well sound the same, but unlike Scheonberg, Messiaen seems to take us at a whole new dimension of "Art Music" in general, and his religious fervor (he was a devout Catholic) and obsession for this "truth" reflects that. |
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| | My interest in Messiaen's music is of relatively recent origin, inspired to a great extent by the involvement of my wife (Madeleine Forte) not only in the performance of his music but also in writing about it. | | | Particulars of her book on Messiaen and his music are listed on her website. | | | Except for the introductory coverage of this music in Robert Sherlaw Johnson's excellent book, Messiaen (University of California Press 1975), I believe there is no published work on this corpus, the central work of which is his Livre d'orgue of 1951, a series of seven remarkable pieces. |
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http://www.allenforte.com/messiaen.html
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| | Benitez, Footnotes |
| | Messiaen’s increasing attraction to timbre may be attributed to a desire to renew his compositional thinking in order to revitalize his music. | | | Messiaen noted the use of simultaneous contrast in the works of the more modern painters he mentions. | | | Messiaen refers to his approach to composition in both specific and general terms with respect to color. |
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http://www.societymusictheory.org:16080/mto/issues/mto.02.8.2/mto.02.8.2.benitez_notes.html
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| | James Wierzbicki / Olivier Messiaen |
| | Indeed, with Messiaen's passing, Western culture lost an artist of the rarest sort; in recent decades Messiaen scored triumph after triumph in concert halls around the world, and he did it with music that is not only strikingly modern but - in and of itself - profoundly sacred. | | | Considering his strong theatrical bent, it is interesting that not until he was almost 70 did Messiaen give thought to writing an opera. | | | But the thought is one that Messiaen must have applied to almost everything he produced during his long career. |
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http://pages.sbcglobal.net/jameswierzbicki/messiaen.htm
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| | Olivier Messiaen |
| | Messiaen was one of the most original composers of the century and had a strong influence on the next generation of composers. | | | Messiaen's most famous work, his Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time), illustrates these aspects of his life. | | | Along with his compositional work, he wrote theoretical works in which he explained the principles of his complex and original musical style. |
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http://www.wwnorton.com/enjoy/shorter/composers/messiaen.htm
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| | Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Olivier Messiaen |
| | Born Avignon, France, in 1908, Olivier Messiaen was a composer and organist, and one of the most influential teachers of the 20 th Century. | | | From his birth, Messiaen was surrounded by the arts. | | | Among Messiaen's organ works are La Nativité du Seigneur and Le Corps Glorieux. |
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http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entity_id=5169&source_type=C
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| | MessiaenWritings&Articles |
| | The Gramophone quoted Messiaen’s opinion of her artistry and John Goldsmith, of Unicorn records, immediately offered to record with her the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen on the instrument of her choice. | | | In particular, she enjoys a unique reputation as the world authority on the French composer Olivier Messiaen, and was his organist of choice. | | | Messiaen scholar and enthusiast Nicholas Armfelt wrote this article in 1964 which was subsequently published in The Musical Times in November 1965. |
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| | Olivier Messiaen |
| | Throughout the 1930s Messiaen continued to develop his methodology of "modes of limited transposition" and "non-retrogradable rhythms", both in his compositions and through published theoretical works. | | | An exception to this - the remarkable pianist Yvonne Loriod - would return Messiaen's encouragement with a long-standing support of her mentor's music; most of the works he would compose throughout the remainder of the 1940s contained parts written especially for her. | | | Free from many of the musical prejudices of the time, Messiaen became popular among students but was never particularly well-liked by the fuddy-duddy establishment. |
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| | Olivier Messiaen - St Peter's Church, Nottingham, England on-line magazine |
| | Born at Avignon in 1908, Olivier Messiaen lived and worked in Paris from childhood onwards. | | | Messiaen’s works are distinguished by variety of colour. | | | He studied music at the Paris Conservatoire - organ with Marcel Dupré and composition with Paul Dukas, and became one of this century’s musical giants. |
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http://www.stpetersnottingham.org/heroes/messiaen.htm
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| | Opera premiere spurs Messiaen month / Events set to reveal composer's rare style |
| | Few composers in the 20th century forged a compositional style as distinct and idiosyncratic, and as multifaceted, as Messiaen's. | | | But Messiaen's music is particularly revealing in large doses because his artistic and thematic concerns are so consistent and yet so varied. | | | Messiaen's opera "Saint Francois d'Assise," which has its U.S. stage premiere at the San Francisco Opera next week, isn't merely an unfamiliar masterpiece. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/18/DD119406.DTL&type=music
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| | Olivier MESSIAEN - Piano Music [HC]: Classical CD Reviews- Nov 2002 MusicWeb(UK) |
| | Thus, the piano version of Messiaen’s first major orchestral work Les offrandes oubliées (1930) was made at the same time as the orchestral score, but does not seem to have attracted much attention since. | | | The short Pièce pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas was composed in 1935 (and not in 1953 as stated in the otherwise excellent notes) in homage to Messiaen’s teacher, whereas the engaging Rondeau was written as a competition piece for the Paris Conservatoire. | | | A tone poem in all but the name, it evokes some Dauphiné landscapes from dawn to sunset in vividly colourful tones in which birdsong inevitably has the lion’s share. |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Nov02/messiaen_autbo_naxos.htm
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| | Calvin College - Music Department - Campus Choir |
| | Given that the sole purpose of his music was to point people to Christ, Olivier Messiaen was frustrated and saddened that even his devotees were usually oblivious to his intent. | | | In particular, this lecture-concert seeks to resituate Messiaen within the renouveau catholique tradition, and in general to reveal Messiaen’s symbolist aims as a musician. | | | Yet, even though our present cultural milieu is more open to Messiaen’s religiosity, many scholars, critics, and musicians continue to overlook it. |
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| | CNM 2003-04 Concert Information, School of Music, The University of Iowa |
| | In 1971, Messiaen was asked to write a piece to commemorate the forthcoming bicentennial of the United States by the American philanthropist Alice Tully. | | | As early as 1945, Messiaen found himself facing the first serious critical attacks of his career. | | | Between 1956 and 1959, Messiaen worked on the massive Catalogue d'oiseaux (The Book of Birds, 1956-58) for solo piano. |
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| | BBC - Music / Profiles - Olivier Messiaen |
| | For Messiaen music was composed of many colours which he saw in his imagination, and which prompted him to compose his own form of "musique coloreé | | | Messiaen saw colours - find out about synaesthesia (seeing colours) and the arts | | | Messiaen began his musical studies at the Paris Conservatoire aged only eleven |
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| | Olivier Messiaen: Symposium at Southwestern University at Georgetown, Texas |
| | In 1931, Messiaen was appointed organist of the Church of La Trinite in Paris, where he regualrly played for masses until his death in 1992. | | | Messiaen's interests in mathematics, color, and birdsong combined with his devout Christian faith, created an individual musical style that has greatly influenced other composers of the 20th century. | | | The first institution of higher learning in Texas, Southwester was chartered in 1840 and consists of the Brown College of Arts and Sciences and the Sarofim School of Fine Arts. |
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| | ELSAproductions - Meeting Messiaen |
| | Presentation of the Ondes Martenot, and Messiaen's use of this instrument. | | | Kurt Brereton will evoke Messiaen's insatiable quest for birdsongs as well as synesthesia and the essential part musical colors would play in Messiaen's composition, through his paintings and installations. | | | San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art present an inspired tribute to the French composer Olivier Messiaen, a key figure in modern classical music whose opera Saint Francois d'Assise launches the new season of SF Opera. |
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| | Olivier Latry: Playing the King of Instruments |
| | Much of this influence flowed from his courses at the Paris Music Conservatory, where he taught musical analysis and composition from 1942 to 1978, but the inspiring effect of his abundant works has also left its mark. | | | He was able to coax sounds out of his instrument that would no doubt have astonished Messiaen himself. | | | Whether in his own time or the present day, Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) influenced a great many composers. |
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| | olivier messiaen threaddd - @forums |
| | messiaen uses the ondes very differently in his turangalila symphony, it is more dynamic, almost a noise, almost percussive. | | | It's essentially an Ondes-Martenot take on the fifth movement (the first Louange) of his Quatuour, and it's one of the most heartbreaking pieces I have ever heard. | | | if some of you are interested in organ since you know messiaens music, i would suggest some earlier works by baroque geniuses which could really please you, played on vintage mechanical organs! |
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| | Olivier Messiaen -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | June 5, 2003, Paris), championed modern composers, notably Jacques Offenbach, Igor Stravinsky, Olivier Messiaen, and Maurice Ravel, who took Rosenthal on as his third and last composition student in 1926 and who remained a close friend. | | | A conductor, pianist, and musical innovator, Pierre Boulez has been acclaimed as the most significant French composer of his generation. | | | As a composer he developed a highly personal style noted for its rhythmic complexity, rich tonal colour, and unique harmonic language. |
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| | ArkivMusic Messiaen: Complete Organ Works / Olivier Latry |
| | A complete set of Messiaen's organ music exists on the Jade label, performed by six different organists on the composer's "own" instrument at Paris' Trinity Church. | | | Recordings of organ music depend for their success as much on the instrument as on the person playing it. | | | After all, the one thing the organ can do as can no other instrument is sustain notes at even volume indefinitely, and Messiaen exploits this capability to the fullest. |
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http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=57613
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| | French culture performing arts : Lincoln Center Festival |
| | Eclairs sur l'au-delà, Messiaen's final completed orchestral work, features a gigantic orchestra of 128 musicians. | | | His music combines a fervent religious belief with a fascination for the passion and mystery of human love, all expressed through a unique compositional method the musical transcription of birdsong, which Messiaen would carry out himself in the fields of France or the canyons of southwest America. | | | His Le Merle Noir (The Blackbird) will be performed on July 13 at 8 pm at the Society for Ethical Culture. |
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| | Elliott Carter, Frank Zappa and Olivier Messiaen |
| | The French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) speaks to students about music in general and about his works, a number of which are presented in excerpts. | | | Although the work had been universally acclaimed at its Paris premiere nine years earlier, it was considered unstageable because of its inner contradictions. | | | On December 10, 1998, the great French composer Olivier Messiaen would have celebrated his 90th birthday. |
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| | Olivier Messiaen: The Complete Organ Works |
| | At the heart of all of Messiaen's music is his deep-seated Catholic faith, coupled with his love of nature (especially mountains and bird song) and his predilection for color. | | | The organ works of Olivier Messiaen are now recognized as among the most important creations for the instrument in the 20th century. | | | The composer later persuaded her to re-record the series digitally (“CDs are all the rage now, you know!” he said), which she did in 1994. |
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| | Jon Gillock, American Organist |
| | Study with Olivier Messiaen in Paris at the Conservatoire Nationale Superieur de la Musique | | | This includes the music of such composers as César Franck, Maurice Duruflé, Louis Vierne, Nicolas de Grigny, François Couperin, Charles Tournemire, and, of course, Olivier Messiaen and Johann Sebastian Bach. | | | Celebration Messiaen (The Complete Works for Organ) at The Riverside Church, NYC, to honor the 90th Birthday of Messiaen, including premieres of Monodie, Prélude, and Offrande au Saint-Sacrement from manuscripts recently discovered, 6 concerts, feature articles in The New York Times |
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| | Musical Times: In memoriam: Olivier Messiaen on Daniel-Lesur |
| | On 14 March 1990, Olivier Messiaen gave a speech at the Institut de France in Paris, when he presented Daniel-Lesur with the award of Grand Officier of the Legion d'Honneur. | | | In 1936 the group Jeune France was founded: Yves Baudrier, Andre Jolivet, Daniel-Lesur and Olivier Messiaen. | | | Then you did me the honour of playing my music, taking part in 1935 [recte 27 February 1936] in the first performance of my Nativity du Seigneur for organ, a premiere entrusted to three organists: you played the first three pieces, Jean Langlais the next three, and Jean-Jacques Grunenwald the last three. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3870/is_200201/ai_n9067658
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| | Concours Olivier Messiaen |
| | He won prizes at several international competitions such as the "Gaudeamus" (Rotterdam, 1996) and "Olivier Messiaen" (Paris, 2000). | | | Prize for the best performance of Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus by Olivier Messiaen given by the Editions Durand : | | | Prize for the best performance of Catalogue d'oiseaux by Olivier Messiaen given by the Editions Leduc : |
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http://www.civp.com/messiaen/messieangb/conthistogb.html
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| | Technique de mon langage musical |
| | The first few examples are of rhythms - the fundamental building blocks Messiaen used to develop his unique approach to rhythm - you need the book and I certainly am not going to compromise the Messiaen estate copyright - Alphonse Leduc and Co, Paris. | | | Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes. | | | les Anges (Messiaen, from La Nativité du Seigneur) |
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| | Olivier Messiaen Movie: Olivier Messiaen DVD is available from Bestprices.com |
| | Distributor Notes One of the greatest figures of 20th century music, Olivier Messiaen found inspiration for his works in religious and mystical symbols with striking rhythms. | | | His "Quartet for the End of Time," composed in 1940 during his captivity in a German prisoner of war camp, is performed by the Messiaen Quartet at the Vaux De Cernay Abbey. | | | An enthusiastic ornithologist, he weaved into his music the songs of birds from all over the world, and is known for his harmonic explorations. |
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| | Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music |
| | Given the extraordinary polish and poise of Steven Osborne's previous Messiaen release on Hyperion devoted to the monumental Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant Jesus, it comes as no surprise that the scrupulous consideration he and pianist Martin Roscoe bring to the seven-movement Visions de l'Amen ups this music's technical ante. | | | In the Fantasie Burlesque, a strange brew of pure Messiaen and ersatz ragtime, Hill exhibits more genuine feeling for the music's dance-hall syncopations than Osborne's heavier, less-"swinging" traversal. | | | Although Messiaen's loudest passages roar with the best of them, his heaviest scoring boasts welcome transparency and long-lined elegance, particularly in the swiftly paced finale. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Olivier Messiaen |
| | Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992), French composer and organist, born in Avignon, and trained at the Paris Conservatoire. | | | Become a subscriber today and gain access to: |
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| | Malaspina Great Books - Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) |
| | Messiaen studied at the Paris Conservatoire (1919-30) with Dukas, Emmanuel and Dupre, and taught there (1941-78) while also serving as organist of La Trinite in Paris. | | | Meanwhile the serial adventures of Boulez and others were also making a mark, and Messiaen produced his most abstract, atonal and irregular music in the Quatre etudes de rythme for piano (1949) and the Livre d'orgue (1951). | | | Right from his first published work, the eight Preludes for piano (1929), he was using his own modal system, with its strong flavouring of tritones, diminished 7ths and augmented triads. |
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| | Twenty Contemplations on the Infant Jesus: An Homage to Olivier Messiaen |
| | Now Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Ramirez has noted the influence on his work of the music of French composer Olivier Messiaen, the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the lines of Gothic architecture. | | | First shown in 1981 at the Art Institute of Chicago, this set of 20 small abstract etchings are a response to Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jésus, the piano suite by Messiaen that inspired Ramirez and gave his series its name. | | | Ramirez was regarded as one of the finest minimalist artists in Chicago in the late 1970s and the 1980s. |
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| | French culture music : Olivier Messiaen at Cooper Arts |
| | Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus, Messiaen's rarely performed Christmas meditation, with Norwegian piano virtuoso Hakon Austbø. | | | Poemes pour mi & Chants de Terre et de Ciel - two of the composer's great song cycles performed by the extraordinary young soprano Elizabeth Farnum and pianist Phillip Bush. | | | In addition, she is an active performer in many diverse musical styles, and her performance of modern music, early music and musical theater have taken her throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Messiaen - Eclairs sur l'au-delà: Music |
| | Music lovers who have so much as a nodding acquaintance with the work of Messiaen will have a very fair idea of what to expect from these Eclairs (flashes of illumination), written right at the end of his long life. | | | Styles > Classical > Classical Instrumental > Composers > M-P > Messiaen | | | Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) is considered to be one of the greatest French composers of the 20th century. |
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| | Stoltzman with I. Kavafian-violin, P. Serkin-piano, and F. Sherry-'cello; Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps (Quartet For The End Of Time); RCA Victor | | | Boeykens with R. Dieltiens-'cello, R. Groslot-piano, and M. Korosec-violin; Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time) - Ensemble Walter Boeykens; Harmonia Mundi Franc | | | Each player must be technically advanced on his or her instrument |
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http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~ea260599/chamber/messiaen.htm
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| | Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Messiaen |
| | Messiaen composed in every form of the time, though his concertos and symphonic works are not entitled as such. | | | Messiaen was also one of the first composers to apply serial principles to rhythmic organization, though serial techniques are used only as one means among many in his arsenal. | | | Messiaen was organist at the Sainte Trinite cathedral, and composed a large body of organ music. |
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| | Olivier Messiaen - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter |
| | One of the greatest figures of 20th century music, Olivier Messiaen found inspiration for his works in religious and mystical symbols with striking rhythms. | | | An enthusiastic ornithologist, he weaved into his music the songs of birds from all over the world, and is known for his harmonic explorations. | | | Get Olivier Messiaen sheet music at Sheet Music Plus. |
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| | As a younger man, I was quite taken with his music and his approach. | | | His piano pieces encapsulate most of his style, because in spite of the orchestral coloring elsewhere, the music always seems worked out on keyboard. | | | Also, of course, I went directly to the Indian music myself. |
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http://www.medieval.org/music/modern/messiaen.html
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| | Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the end of time) for violin, clarinet, cello, and piano written while Messiaen was imprisoned in a concentration camp. | | | Messiaen was a teacher of composers Boulez, Stockhausen, Barraqué, and Xenakis. | | | CLICK HERE for Sheet Music by this composer. |
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