Messiaen wrote his La nativité du Seigneur ... Ethel Smith This next piece sits right at the other end of the organ-music spectrum. Ethel Smith – not to be confused with Ethel Smyth ...

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. He entered the Paris ...