Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra played Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” Sunday at UChicago’s Mandel ...

Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Danny Jin warms up on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, before a concert. Jin will be among a ...

Meet Olivier Messiaen – the bird-mad composer who used birdsong to create some of the most startlingly original music of all time. It all started in springtime... in a prisoner of war camp ...

Soprano Julia Bullock, while a conservatory student, was struck by the music of French composer Olivier Messiaen. Upon hearing one piece in his song cycle, “Chants de Terre et de Ciel ...

Olivier Messiaen played a leading role in the evolution of 20th-century music. In this classic interview, the late composer talks on topics such as his love of nature and his fervent Christian ...

It brought us Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony ... was wielded by specialist Cynthia Millar. And yet, this music has visceral physicality besides intellect – the fifth movement ...

Probably the only classical composer to have a mountain named after him (Mount Messiaen, Utah, 1978), Messiaen is among ... which had the express intention of promoting modern French music. He joined ...

This fresh, sensual music contains some of the earliest examples of Messiaen’s use of ‘Modes of Limited Transposition’, a series of scales he later devised for their symmetry and symbolism.

Organist, pianist, composer, and visionary, Messiaen wrote music of vivid color and intense contrasts, ranging from delirious joy to profound stillness. La Nativiteì tells the Christmas story ...