Meet Olivier Messiaen – the ... of a blackbird and a nightingale. Messiaen was released a year later and returned to Paris, where he resumed his former life as a musician and educator.

Probably the only classical composer to have a mountain named after him (Mount Messiaen, Utah, 1978), Messiaen is among ... in Paris – he played there regularly until the end of his life – but also ...

Poet Michael Symmons Roberts gets to the heart of composer Olivier ... poetry and Messiaen's music. One of Messiaen's main inspirations was the early, pioneering sound recordist and specialist ...