Olivier Messiaen
10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist. He served as organist of the Church of the Sainte-Trinite in Paris for over sixty years and taught at the Paris Conservatoire, where his pupils included Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis. His works include the Quatuor pour la fin du temps, the Turangalila-Symphonie and the opera Saint Francois d'Assise.
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Life events
Son of the English teacher Pierre Messiaen and the poet Cecile Sauvage.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBegan study at the age of eleven, remaining for more than a decade.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHeld the post for the rest of his life.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTheir son Pascal was born in 1937.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgLater became professor of composition there in 1966.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgComposed and first performed while he was a prisoner of war in Gorlitz.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe ten-movement orchestral work was premiered in Boston in 1949 under Leonard Bernstein.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgA cycle built from transcriptions of French birdsong, reflecting his work as an ornithologist.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgMarried his former pupil and longtime interpreter after the death of his first wife.
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