Oliver Messiaen Vinyl Record Albums

Olivier Messiaen (b. Dec. 10, 1908, Avignon, France; d. April 27, 1992, Clichy, near Paris) studied at the Paris Conservatoire (1919-30) with Paul Dukas, Emmanuel and Dupre, and taught there (1941-78) while also serving as organist of La Trinite in Paris. Right from his first published work, the eight Preludes for piano (1929), he was using his own modal system, with its strong flavouring of tritones, diminished 7ths and augmented triads. During the 1930s he added a taste for rhythmic irregularity and for the rapid changing of intense colours, in both orchestral and organ works.