Messiaen

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This is the first book to explore the world that Messiaen was at pains to keep hidden.

• ISBN bar code 9780300109078 ξ1 registered September 21 2015
  
• ISBN bar code 9780300109078 ξ2 registered November 02 2012
  
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This is the first book to explore the world that Messiaen was at pains to keep hidden. It has been made possible by the unprecedented access to Messiaen's private archive granted to the authors by the composer's widow, Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen. The archive includes musical sketches, correspondence, lecture notes, diaries, as well as hundreds of photographs, many of which are published here for the first time. Using this remarkable material, Hill and Simeone trace the origins of many of Messiaen's greatest works, and place them in the context of his life, from his years at the Paris Conservatoire, his passionate first marriage to Claire Delbos, through to the immense achievements of his final decades."--BOOK JACKET.

^ Nigel Simeone (2015). Messiaen ISBN 9780300109078 (revised Sep 2015)
^ Hill, Peter, and Simeone, Nigel (2012). 9780300109078, Yale University Press, New Haven and London. ISBN 9780300109078 (revised Nov 2013)