Olivier Messiaen

  • Known for: Sound / Music
  • Date of birth: 1908. December 10.
  • Place of birth: Avignon, France

Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist who was one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex; harmonically and melodically he employs a system he called modes of limited tran...

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