Meet Olivier Messiaen – the bird-mad composer who used birdsong to create some of the most startlingly original music of all time. It all started in springtime... in a prisoner of war camp ...

Soprano Julia Bullock, while a conservatory student, was struck by the music of French composer Olivier Messiaen. Upon ...

Probably the only classical composer to have a mountain named after him (Mount Messiaen, Utah, 1978), Messiaen is among the most strikingly individual of 20th-century composers. Probably the only ...

It brought us Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony ... The Grammy-nominated composer – British born, US based – spins out snatches of poetry by Emily Dickinson into ethereally ...

Countless composers have incorporated birdsong into their music, from Beethoven to Ottorino Respighi to — most famously — Olivier Messiaen. But the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara went one step ...

Music by Olivier Messiaen and George Frideric Handel ... a world premiere by Berkeley-born composer Gabriella Smith performed by the chamber ensemble yMusic, and “This Land Is Our Land ...

Messiaen wrote his La nativité du Seigneur ... blooming’ – first appeared in print in 1599, though the original composer remains a mystery. Among the many to recycle the melody are ...