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Les corps glorieux, Sept visions brèves de la Vie des ressuscités (French: The Bodies Glorious, Seven Brief Visions of the Life of the Resurrected) are a large cycle for organ composed in the summer of 1939 [1] [2] in Saint-Théoffrey by Olivier Messiaen.
Les eaux de la Grâce ("The Fountains of Grace") L'ange aux parfums ("The Angel of Perfumes") Combat de Mort et de la Vie ("Battle of Life and Death") Force et agilité des Corps Glorieux ("Strength and Agility of the Glorious Bodies") Joie et clarté des Corps Glorieux ("Joy and Clarity of the Glorious Bodies")
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He also wrote the extensive cycles La Nativité du Seigneur ("The Nativity of the Lord") and Les Corps glorieux ("The glorious bodies"). [34] At the outbreak of World War II, Messiaen was drafted into the French army. Due to poor eyesight, he was enlisted as a medical auxiliary rather than an active combatant. [35]
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.
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Les Trois sont Un: This section is now expanded and slightly more varied. Père. Fils. Esprit. These three sections are an exact repetition. Cry of Saint Paul. A downward cascade of chords ensues, this time expanded and with a short ostinato sequence at the end. The diminuendo fragment from the previous section is repeated. Third section.
Livre du Saint Sacrement was commissioned by the American Guild of Organists for its 1986 National Convention in Detroit, Michigan. [2] Ray Ferguson, the convention program chair, was largely responsible for acquiring the commission in 1982-1984, with help from the eventual premiere organist, Almut Rössler []. [3]