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Name: Olivier Messiaen
Birth Date: December 10, 1908
Death Date: April 27, 1992
Place of Birth: Avignon, France
Place of Death: Paris, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: composer

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Biography of Olivier Messiaen
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The French composer and teacher Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), one of the most original composers and musical thinkers of his time, had a strong influence on many of the important composers of the following generation. Olivier Messiaen was born in...


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Ascension He has gone away, the Well-Beloved, For our sake! He is risen, the Well-Beloved, For our sake! He has prayed, the Well-Beloved, For our sake! He has spoken, He has sung, The Word was with God. Praises of the Father, Substance of the Father,...


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Olivier Messiaen (IPA: [mɛsjɑ̃]; December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 11, and numbered Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Charles-Marie Widor and...


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Olivier Messiaen-the Crystal Liturgy
05/01/2008: 364 words, approx. 1 pages
OLIVIER MESSIAEN-THE CRYSTAL LITURGY * JUXTAPOSITIONS 44 (DVD: 107:00) In Olivier Mille's 2002 documentary, the 12th in a series of 20th-century composer portraits which Ideale Audience has released under the heading "Juxtapositions," Messiaen seems unwilling to call himself a composer at all. Seen...
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Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen is dead
12/8/2007: 649 words, approx. 2 pages
Karlheinz Stockhausen, one of the most important and controversial postwar composers who helped shape a new understanding of sound through electronic compositions, died at his home in western Germany. He was 79.Stockhausen, who gained fame through his avant-garde works in the 1960s and '70s and...
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Strong casting at SF Opera performances
7/1/2007: 852 words, approx. 3 pages
The ads posted around town promised "Summer Passion," and there was no shortage of emotion at the San Francisco Opera's just-completed June season _ either onstage or off.All three productions that rotated through the month were cast with singers of extraordinary star power in the...
 


 

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