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Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux: From Conception to Performance (Music in Context) by Roderick Chadwick; Peter Hill is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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Roderick Chadwick and Peter Hill give a detailed account of the evolution of Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux for piano solo, from its initial conception in the Black Forest in 1953 to its completion and premiere in the Parisian 'Concerts du Domaine Musical' at the end of the decade. Through close examination of the composer's birdsong cahiers they demonstrate how Messiaen translated nature into music in a way that had a major impact on his later work. They also consider issues of performa
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Roderick Chadwick; Peter Hill
- Publisher
- United Kingdom ; Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781108547857
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Piano & Keyboard, History, Music
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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