Messiaen

by Nigel Simeone, Peter Hill, Peter Hill

The French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-92) is a musician about whom most remains to be discovered. More than a decade after his death our knowledge of Messiaen is largely conditioned by what he said about himself in lectures and interviews, in his work as a teacher, and in the monumental seven-volume treatise that encompassed the whole of his composing world. But Messiaen's public documents conceal as much as they reveal, seldom explaining...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300109075
• ISBN13: 9780300109078
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.8" x 9.5"