Olivier Messiaen: Music, Art and Literature

by Christopher Philip Dingle, Nigel Simeone, Christopher Dingle

Book Overview

When Olivier Messiaen died in 1992, the prevailing image was of a man apart; a deeply religious man whose only sources of inspiration were God and Nature and a composer whose music progressed along an entirely individual path, artistically impervious to contemporaneous events and the whims both of his contemporaries and the critics. Whilst such a view contains a large element of truth, the past ten years has seen an explosion of interest in the composer,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138264857
• ISBN13: 9781138264854
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"