The legacy of this composer and conductor may not be in his rarely performed works, but in how we think about music itself.

Hailed as one of this era’s most adventurous interpreters of the classical organ repertoire, leading female organist Gail ...

The French composer and conductor despised the staid and conservative and desired no less than a classical music revolution. He irrevocably shaped Europe's music and culture scene throughout the 20th ...

Grieg was freshly in love when he wrote his lone piano sonata at age 22, and Andsnes brought a young man’s passion ... of his French contemporary, Olivier Messiaen. Most haunting were the ...

In March 1945, the classical music world in Paris split into warring camps after the premiere of Olivier Messiaen’s two-hour devotional suite for solo piano, Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jésus. The ...

As young as age five, he was intrigued by his ... where he had lessons by Simone Plé-Caussade and Olivier Messiaen. He was nominated in 1962 for an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for ...

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 ...

On the centenary of Pierre Boulez’s birth, Phillippe Manoury tells us about his relationship with the composer and conductor, ...

His father served as a Garda sargeant in Adare, Co. Limerick, where young Seán started school and developed ... played jazz and met the avant garde composer Olivier Messiaen, who at that time was ...

Thousands of free tickets are available for young musicians, NHS staff and community groups ... the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Olivier Messiaen's moving Les ...