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Diptyque : essai sur la vie terrestre et l'éternité bienheureuse (French: Diptych: essay on earthly life and blessed eternity) is a bipartite essay for organ in C minor by French composer Olivier Messiaen. Written from 1929 through 1930; it is inspired by the theology of his Catholic faith.
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Olivier Messiaen's Compositions, Listed by Title, archived from the original on 2012-11-19. Annotated works list, hosted by the Boston University Messiaen Project. Liste des compositions Olivier Messiaen, triés par date de composition. More comprehensive annotated list of works, in order of composition, with details on first performances and ...
Messiaen originally conceived the piece as a work for two pianos, as he had achieved success in that format previously with Visions de l'Amen. [2] The sung words evoke the presence of God in himself and in all things, as indicated by the title. According to Messiaen, each movement describes a different facet of God's presence:
Apparition de l'église éternelle (Apparition of the eternal church) is a work for organ, written by the French composer Olivier Messiaen in 1932.. The piece is in arch form, beginning in pianissimo (pp) and building up to a fortississimo (fff) climax featuring a C major chord, and then receding back to pianissimo.
For example, Messiaen has written that "The 'Theme of Chords' is heard throughout, fragmented, concentrated, surrounded with resonances, combined with itself, modified in both rhythm and register, transformed, transmuted in all sorts of ways: it is a complex of sounds intended for perpetual variation, pre-existing in the abstract like a series ...
Résurrection des morts (Resurrection of the dead). Stained glass, around 1200, in the Sainte-Chapelle. Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (And I await the resurrection of the dead) is a suite for wind orchestra and percussion instruments by Olivier Messiaen, written in 1964 and first performed the following year.
Le banquet céleste (The Heavenly Banquet or The Celestial Banquet) is a work for organ, written by the French composer Olivier Messiaen in 1928. Based on the slow movement of an earlier unfinished orchestral work Le Banquet Eucharistique dating from 1926–1927, it is Messiaen's first published work. [1] It was revised in 1960.