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Olivier Messiaen (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. Messiaen's music is rhythmically complex (he was interested in rhythms from ancient Greece and from Hindu sources), and is harmonically and melodically based on modes of limited transposition, which were Messiaen's own innovation. Many of his compositions depict what he termed "the marvellous aspects of the faith", drawing on his unshakeable Roman Catholicism.

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  • Concert à quatre / Les Offrandes oubliées / Le Tombeau resplendissant / Un sourire

    Concert à quatre / Les Offrandes oubliées / Le Tombeau resplendissant / Un sourire

    Album1995
  • Quartet for the End of Time

    Quartet for the End of Time

    Album1995
  • Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum / Chronochromie / La Ville d’en Haut

    Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum / Chronochromie / La Ville d’en Haut

    Album1995
  • Éclairs sur l'Au-delà...

    Éclairs sur l'Au-delà...

    Album1994
  • 20th Century Music for Unaccompanied Clarinet

    20th Century Music for Unaccompanied Clarinet

    Album1994
  • Livre d'orgue / L'Ascension

    Livre d'orgue / L'Ascension

    Album1994
  • L'Œuvre d'orgue

    L'Œuvre d'orgue

    Album1994
  • Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps

    Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps

    Album1994
  • Catalogue d'oiseaux / La Fauvette des jardins

    Catalogue d'oiseaux / La Fauvette des jardins

    Album1994
  • Des canyons aux étoiles...

    Des canyons aux étoiles...

    Album1994
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