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Language: en
Pages: 462
Pages: 462
Language: en
Pages: 300
Pages: 300
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Pendragon Press
The celebrated composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) characterized himself as a rhythmician, ornithologist, and theologian.All interpreters concur that his life
Language: en
Pages: 428
Pages: 428
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
Gillock supplies details about the organ at La Trinité in Paris, the instrument for which most of Messiaen's pieces were imagined.
Language: en
Pages: 378
Pages: 378
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-05 - Publisher: Routledge
When Olivier Messiaen died in 1992, the prevailing image was of a man apart; a deeply religious man whose only sources of inspiration were God and Nature and a
Language: en
Pages: 316
Pages: 316
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
For Olivier Messiaen, music was a way of expressing his faith. He considered it his good fortune to have been born a Catholic and declared that 'the illuminatio