Eén van de composities van Messiaen was Saint François d’Assise. Messiaen was overtuigd katholiek en haalde veel inspiratie uit zijn geloof. Hij schreef deze compositie voor een opera over de heilige ...

But Messiaen’s magnum opus was Catalogue d’Oiseaux (Catalogue of Birds), a work for solo piano completed in 1958. It’s divided into 13 different sections, each devoted to a principal bird ...

Probably the only classical composer to have a mountain named after him (Mount Messiaen, Utah, 1978), Messiaen is among the most strikingly individual of 20th-century composers. Probably the only ...

Messiaen wrote his La nativité du Seigneur ... had over 2,500 pieces memorised – including the complete organ works of Bach, Franck, Liszt and Mendelssohn. She wrote this inquisitive ...

Latry recorded the complete works of Messiaen on the great Cavaillé-Coll organ of Notre-Dame. His subsequent albums for Deutsche Grammophon included a disc of transcriptions mostly by French ...

Messiaen’s “Harawi” is the first part of his trilogy composed of a collection of works inspired by the myth of Tristan and ...

Rae’s work has reassessed Jolivet, overturning the view of him as a one-time progressive turned traditionalist. She has revealed a continuity of compositional innovation since 1945 and shown that his ...