Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen ({{IPA2|m?sj??}} or {{IPA|/m?sj??/}}; December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. He lived in Grenoble in the French Alps during World War I, and returned there during his summers, and in his retirement, to compose. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 11, and numbered Marcel Dupré, Maurice Emmanuel and Paul Dukas among his teachers. He was appointed organist at the church of La Trinité in Paris in 1931, a post he held until his death.

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• {{note|prophetic_Sauvage}} Messiaen & Samuel (1994), p. 15
• {{note|toy_theatre}} Messiaen & Samuel (1994), p. 41
• {{note|home_in_Dauphine}} Hill (1995), pp. 300–1
• {{note|vocal_scores_Xmas}} Messiaen & Samuel (1994), p. 109
• {{note|Pelleas}} Messiaen & Samuel (1994), p. 110
• {{note|Delbos_tragedy}} Yvonne Loriod, in Hill (1995), p. 294
• {{note|Jeune_France_purpose}} quoted from the program for La Jeune Frances opening concert in Griffiths (1985) p 72
• {{note|Messiaen_callup_eyesight}} Griffiths (1985), p. 139
• {{note|outstanding_teacher}} Pierre Boulez in Hill (1995), pp. 266ff
• {{note|sexual_love}} Griffiths (1985), p. 139
• {{note|rechants_alba}} Griffiths (1985), p. 142
• {{note|scientific_musical_ornithologist}} Griffiths (1985), p. 168
• {{note|Bryce_canyon_visit}} Griffiths (1985), p. 225
• {{note|opera_composition}} Programme for Opéra de la Bastille production of St. François d'Assise, p. 18
• {{note|back_pain}} Yvonne Loriod, in Hill (1995), p. 302
• {{note|outside_classical_tradition}} Griffiths (1985) p. 15
• {{note|sin_of_no_interest}} Messiaen & Samuel (1994), p. 213
• {{note|deci_talas}} Messiaen & Samuel (1994), p. 77
• {{note|Messiaen_criteria}} Messiaen & Samuel (1994), p. 47
• {{note|Loriod_technique}} Messiaen & Samuel (1994), p. 114
• {{note|whole_tone_use}} Messiaen, Technique de mon langage musical
• {{note|keyboard_masters}} Messiaen & Samuel (1994), p. 114
• {{note|Boris_M}} Messiaen, Technique de mon langage musical
• {{note|tonal_modal_serial}} Messiaen & Samuel (1994), pp. 49–50
• {{note|coloured_or_not}} Messiaen & Samuel (1994), p. 63
• {{note|coloured_composers}} Messiaen & Samuel (1994), p. 62
• {{note|Benjamin_Prom2004}} George Benjamin, speaking in interview with Tommy Pearson, broadcast on BBC4 in the interval of Prom concert in 2004 at which Benjamin conducted a performance of Des canyons aux étoiles…
• {{note|mode_abstraction}} Hill (1995), p. 17
• {{note|dom_sevenths_mode_2}} Griffiths (1985) p. 32
• {{note|resonance_v_serialism}} Messiaen & Samuel (1994), pp. 241–2
• {{note|colombe_resonance}} Griffiths (1985) p. 34
• {{note|serialism_annoyance}} Messiaen & Samuel (1994), p. 47
• {{note|banquet_date}} Olivier Messiaen, notes for recording on Erato ECD75503
• {{note|timbres_failure}} Messiaen & Samuel (1994), p. 198

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