18 Jan 2008

Another fine Messiaen

http://music.guardian.co.uk/classical/story/0,,2242357,00.html

Oliviermessiaen.png[Guardian, 18 January 2008]

In the run-up to London's year-long Messiaen festival, Andrew Clements celebrates his inimitable music

Even if he had never published a note of his own music, nor laid a hand on a keyboard in public, Olivier Messiaen's influence on the course of music in the second half of the 20th century would still have been indelible.