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Olivier Messiaen

The Centenary Papers

Edited By: Judith Crispin

£44.99

Olivier Messiaen, one of the most influential composers of the 20th century, was a great nature poet and mystic. This volume of essays by international experts marks his centenary, exploring the diverse and lasting sphere of his legacy.

In 2008 musicians and scholars world-wide celebrated the centenary of Olivier Messiaen’s birth. One of the most influential composers in living memory, Messiaen is remembered…

In 2008 musicians and scholars world-wide celebrated the centenary of Olivier Messiaen’s birth. One of the most influential composers in living memory, Messiaen is remembered as a great nature poet—a mystic whose music had a profound effect on the Twentieth-century avant-garde.

This volume of essays, marking the occasion of Messiaen’s centenary, was authored by musicologists, performers, composers, ornithologists and researchers from Australia, Germany, France, North America, Japan, New Zealand, Serbia and England. The writers, internationally acclaimed experts as well as emerging scholars, span three generations—living testimony to the diverse and lasting sphere of Messiaen’s legacy.

Dr Judith Crispin is a composer and musicologist, currently undertaking research on Modernist music and Western Esotericism at the Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany, where she also lectures on Messiaen. She is the author of The Esoteric Musical Tradition of Ferruccio Busoni and Its Reinvigoration in the Music of Larry Sitsky: The Operas Doktor Faust and The Golem (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007).