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Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time
Language: en
Pages: 269
Authors: Paul Griffiths
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-05 - Publisher: Faber & Faber

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Olivier Messiaen was one of the outstanding creative artists of his time. The strength of his appeal, to listeners as well as to composers, is a measure of the
Olivier Messiaen
Language: en
Pages: 378
Authors: Nigel Simeone
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-05 - Publisher: Routledge

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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
For the End of Time
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Rebecca Rischin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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The clarinetist Rebecca Rischin has written a captivating book.... Her research dispels several long-cherished myths about the 1941 premiere.... Rischin lovingl
Music for the End of Time
Language: en
Pages: 32
Authors: Jennifer Bryant
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company

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Presents the story of how French composer Olivier Messiaen was able to overcome the desolation of a World War II prison camp through the power of music.
Olivier Messiaen
Language: en
Pages: 156
Authors: Peter Hill
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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Olivier Messiaen's Oiseaux exotiques is arguably the first of Messiaen's major works to create a successful synthesis between his music and his passion for orni