Probably the only classical composer to have a mountain named after him (Mount Messiaen, Utah, 1978), Messiaen is among the most strikingly individual of 20th-century composers. Probably the only ...

Messiaen wrote his La nativité du Seigneur ... Bach’s Orgelbüchlein (‘Little Organ Book’) is a set of 46 chorale preludes for organ, written while the great man was organist to the ...

Meet Olivier Messiaen – the bird-mad composer who used birdsong to create some of the most startlingly original music of all time. It all started in springtime... in a prisoner of war camp ...