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Olivier Messiaen: the birdman


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Welcome Back to Between the Barlines! Today, we are going to speak about another composer who was particularly influential in this post-tonal timeframe that we are going through - and that was Olivier Messiaen. I know I said in the last episode we would be chatting more about serialist composers and extensions of serialism, but I think it is important that we discuss Messiaen, as many of those composers studied with him.

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Music mentioned in this episode:

Quatuor pour la fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time)

Vingt regards sur l’enfant-jésus

Poèmes pour mi

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Between the BarlinesBy Maeve Berry