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From: seltzer@ucbvax.ARPA (Linda Seltzer)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Inspirational
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Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 12:41:03 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 15 12:41:03 1985
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Olivier Messiaen is a twentieth century French composer whose
works I find very moving.  I recommend the following:

	Et Expectato Resurrectionem Mortuorem
	Chronochromie
	Visions de l'Amen (for 2 pianos - listen to the recording by
		Peter Serkin and Yuji Takahashi)
	L'Ascencion (for organ)
	Le Nativite de Seigneur (for organ)

Messiaen is a Cholic mystic who developed his own system of harmony
and melody, as described in his book, Le Technique de Mon Langage
Musical (also translated into English).  He uses rhythms derived
from the talas of Indian music.  

His most famous work is:

	Quatour de la Fin du Temps, a quartet which was written and
performed while he was in a Nazi prison camp.

Of all Western composers I find his work to be the most beautiful
and the most spiritual.

						L. Seltzer
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