Abbate, Carolyn 122–3 Adams, John 233 Adorno, T. W. 68, 69, 172–3

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A Bosch, Hieronymus 211 Abbate, Carolyn 122–3 Boulanger, Nadia 34, 50 Adams, John 233 Boulez, Pierre 2, 9, 37, 46–7, 49, 65, 66, Adorno, T. W. 68, 69, 172–3, 174, 176 67, 71, 77, 143, 190, 232, 232, agape 40 245, 247, 251 Alquie,´ Ferdinand 43 Piano Sonata No. 2 53 Antoine, Pere` Louis 217–18, 229 Structures 1a 64 Apollinaire, Guillaume 221 Sur incises 247 Aquinas, St Thomas 49, 91, 213, 217, Braque, Georges 44 224–5, 228–9 Breton, Andre´ 34, 35, 50–1, 55, 61 Aragon, Louis 42 Arcane 4, 55 Arletty 18 First Surrealist Manifesto 38–9 Arrieu, Claude 3 Mad Love (L’Amour fou) 41, 55, 60 Aubin, Tony 5 Nadja 55 Augustine, St 90, 92 le point sublime 41, 55, 61–2 Aulnoy, Madame d’ 211 Second Surrealist Manifesto 40–1 Auric, Georges 4, 5 use of Tristan ideal 60–1 Britten, Benjamin 173 B Bunlet, Marcelle 4, 5, 20, 23, 24, 25, Balthasar, Hans Urs Von 79, 94–8, 99, 26, 27, 30 208–9, 229 Barraine, Elsa 18 C Barto´k, Bela 232 Calvino, Italo 143, 253 Baudrier, Yves 6, 7, 11 The Castle 123–5, 132, 141–2 Les Musiciens dans la cite´ 7, 11, 12 Capdevielle, Pierre 5, 11–12 Beaumont, Etienne de 22 Caplet, Andre´ 4 Benjamin, George 246 Carne,´ Marcel Benjamin, Walter 40, 172 Les Enfants du paradis 17 Berg, Alban 66, 232 Carter, Elliott 233, 242–3, 245–6, Lyrische Suite 34 252, 253 Wozzeck 105 Catholic Action (l’Action Catholique) Berio, Luciano 212, 214, 230 Rendering 253 Chagall, Marc Berlioz, Hector 4, 234 Bouquet with Flying Lovers 37 Les Nuits d’et´ e´ 4 Chailley, Jacques 4, 27, 28 Symphonie fantastique 123 Cantique du soleil 4 Bernac, Pierre 6, 7, 11, 15 Chaix-Ruy, Jules Bernstein, Leonard 173 From the Fairytale to the Celestial Birtwistle, Harrison 232, 233 210–11, 220–1 Bizet, Georges 4 Chirico, Giorgio de 53

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Claudel, Paul 14 E Cocteau, Jean 4, 9, 18, 22 Ecole d’Arcueil 15 Cohler, Jonathan 185–6 Eluard, Paul 35, 45–6, 54, 55, 61 Congar, Yves 209, 213, 214 La Courbe de tes yeux 45–6 Copland, Aaron 65 Un Bel Oiseaux 46 Cortot, Alfred 2, 18 Emmanuel, Maurice Sonatine IV sur des modes hindous 23 D Dada 38 F Dali, Salvador Fabre, Lucien depiction of ecstasy 42 Dieu est innocent Daniel-Lesur, Jean-Yves 5, 6, 7, 11, 13 Rabevel ou Le Mal des ardents 16 Trois Poemes` 11, 12 Ferraud, Pierre-Octave 5 Pavane 11, 12 Fetis,´ Franc¸ois-Joseph 240–1 Dassil, Lia 10 filiation (adoptive) 39 Debussy, Claude 12, 63, 232 Franc¸ais, Jean 5, 26 Prelude´ a` l’apres-midi` d’un faune 5 Franck, Cesar´ 4, 7 Delannoy, Marcel 5 Freud, Sigmund 38, 39 Berceuse 15 Eros and Thanatos 39–40 Chanson du Galerien´ 15 Delaunay, Robert 194 G Delbos, Claire (Messiaen’s first wife)15, Gaulle, Charles de 19 20, 26, 27–8, 29, 38, 60 Giacometti, Alberto 51 L’Ame en bourgeon 15, 25 Gide, Andre´ Paraphrase sur le jugement dernier Oedipe 16 21, 22 Gluck, C. W. von 222 Deleuze, Gilles 166–7 Orfeo ed Euridice 221 deterritorialisation 163 Goehr, Alexander 244–5, 246, 248, 251 ‘impossible ear’ 167 Goeyvaerts, Karel 63, 72 territorialisation 161–2 Golea,´ Antoine 63 and immanence 161 Gould, Glenn 173 and Messiaen’s techniques 162 Grisey, Gerard´ 246 and Time 162–4 Groupe des Six 15 Delvincourt, Claude 5, 15, 26, 27, Guardini, Romano 208, 214–15 29, 71–2 Guehenno,´ Jean 8 Bocasserie 15 Guitry, Sacha 18 Demarquez, Suzanne 4, 15 Variations, interlude et tarentelle sur un H theme` populaire corse 15 Hakim, Naji 248 Denis, Maurice Hanslick, Eduard 97 Woodcuts for the Fioretti 211, Harvey, Jonathan 234, 235, 247–8 225–6 Hegel, G. W. F. 38, 41 Derain, Andre´ 18 Hindemith, Paul 64 Desormi´ ere,` Roger 18, 26 Honegger, Arthur 4, 5, 6, 15, 26, Domenach, Jean-Marie 213 28, 30 Dongen, Kees van 18 Poemes` de Claudel 15 Dubois, Theodore 25 Le Roi David 24, 206 Dukas, Paul 5, 245 ‘Semaine Honegger’ 20–1 L’Apprenti Sorcier 122–3 Dupre,´ Marcel 3, 21, 23, 24, 26, 245 J Durey, Louis 221 Jacob, Max 44 Durufle,´ Maurice 5, 12, 30 Jaubert, Maurice 5 Dutilleux, Henri 12 Joachim, Irene` 11

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Jolivet, Andre´ 4, 5, 6, 7–8, 11, 17, Maxwell Davies, Peter 232 20, 22, 30, 44 Milhaud, Darius 22 Complaintes du Soldat 7, 11 Monnier, Adrienne 9 Messe dite pour le jour de la paix Mozart, W. A. 10–11, 20 Don Giovanni 230 Suite for String Trio 11 Piano concerto No. 24 174, 176 Munch, Charles 5, 9, 26, 29 K Murail, Tristan 246–7 Kant, Immanuel 39 and the sublime 39, 43, 88, 89, 94 Messiaen, Olivier Kerman, Joseph 214, 230 appointment to Conservatoire 18–19, 65 Kierkegaard, Søren 95 art and religion 252–3 Association de Musique Contemporaine L (AMC) 4–5, 11, 12 Lacan, Jacques Cage, John 71–2, 77 ‘quilting point’ 150 ‘Le Cas Messiaen’ 36 Langlais, Jean 12, 30 Conference´ de Kyoto 37 Lautremont´ (Compte de) [nee´ Isidore Conference´ de Notre-Dame 86, 87, Lucien Ducasse] 200, 204 Les Chants de Maldoror 43 diary addresses 31–3 Leeuw, Gerardus van der eblouissement´ 39, 41, 79–80, 98–100 sublime in music 88–9 and aural experience 90 Leibowitz, Rene´ 64, 66, 77, 190 and Couleurs de la Citec´ eleste´ 80, 194–5 criticism of Messiaen 68–70 and faith 81, 82–3 criticism of Stravinsky 68, 69 form and fragmentation 86, 87, 88 on the Modes of Limited and ‘the idol’ 91–4, 99–100 Transpositions 70 and love 99–100 publications on serial music 67–8 and modernity 40, 43 teaching 67 and stained-glass windows 80–2 Levy,´ Lazare 18 and the sublime 87–90 Lifar, Serge 18 and synaesthesia 81 Ligeti, Gyorgy¨ and La Transfiguration de Notre- Lontano 166 Seigneur Jesus-Christ´ 83–7 Lindberg, Magnus 246–7 hybridic art 41–2 Litaize, Gaston 30 La Jeune France 4, 5, 6–8, 10, 11, #12, 15, Loriod (Messiaen), Yvonne 2, 6, 11, 17 12, 17, 20, 21, 29, 30, 31, 38, 65, Massenet and Gounod 234 181, 185 Messiaen, Alain 29, 222–3 Lortz, Joseph 213–14 Messiaen, Pascal 20, 28 Lucretius Messiaen, Pierre 2–3, 20, 28, 219, 222–3 De rerum natura 147–8 Messiaen’s iconoclasm 250 Luther, Martin 95 Messiaen’s music in the context of Lutoslawski, Witold 34 twentieth-century music 232–4 on neoclassicism 36, 68, 69 M order of service for funeral 59 Machabey, Armand 7–8, 12–14 pocket diary 2, 20–33 Mallarme,´ Stephane´ 57 as Surrealist 41 Malliol, Aristide 18 time Marion, J. L. aesthetics and theology of 49–50 the idol and ‘dazzlement’ 90–4, 97 and colour 42 Martenot, Ginette 4 and eternity 50 Massenet, Jules 245 TMLM 1, 15, 16, 20, 21, 24, 28, 30, Massine, Leonide´ 22 31, 63, 68, 69, 73, 101–2

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tradition 233–4 genesis of 145 TRCO 1, 66–7, 101, 103, 149, 151–9, ‘impossibilities’ 145, 146–7, 159–60, 160, 235–40 166, 167 inferior resonance (resonance´ Olivier Messiaen (works alphabetically) inferieure´ ): 154 Apparition de l’eglise´ eternelle´ 89 minting (le monnayage) 148, 159, L’Ascension 4, 29, 31, 36, 59 164–6 personnages rythmiques 163, 166–7 Le Banquet celeste´ 36, 89, 234 relation to Greek poetry 147–8 birdsong symmetrical permutions (permutations and musical syntax 121–3, 125–44 symmetriques´ )in148–50, 159, and ‘set theory’ 101–2 160, 163 theological music 160–1, 167 Canteyodjaya´ ˆ 72, 73, 77, 148, 191 use of birdsong 148, 163 genesis of 64–5 Concerto a` quatre 230 and serialism 66–7 Les Corps glorieux 1, 7–8, 15, 20, 21, 23, 24, Des Canyons aux etoiles´ ...196, 211, 27, 28, 29, 30, 70, 92, 184 215, 216 Couleurs de la citec´ eleste´ 145 Catalogue d’oiseaux 102, 235 and colour 194–5 L’Alouette calandrelle 113–14, 133, 135 and time 195–6 L’Alouette lulu 111–12, 125, 126, 133–4 La Bouscarle 113–14, 120–2, 132, Diptyque 14 134, 138 La Buse variable 115–16, 120, 131, 133, Eclairs sur l’au dela`...145, 147, 138, 140–1 252, 253 Le Chochard des Alpes 105–7, 108, Et Expecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum 196 126, 137–8, 138, 140–1 chord types in ‘source harmonies’ La Fauvette des Jardins 191, 234, 235, 103–7, 120 237–9, 242 Le Chouette hulotte 111, 138, 140–1 chorales 243–4 Le Courlis cendre´ 116–18, 134, 137, 138, and modernism 232–3 141 relationship between dissonance and Le Loriot 108–9, 126–8 consonance 237, 239, 241–2 Le Merle de roche 115, 132–3, 134, 138 Son-couleur relationship 235–41 Le Merle bleu 109–10, 134–7 form 188 and ‘programme music’ 119–24, 142 Messiaen’s relationship to ‘tradition’ La Rousserolle effarvatte 112–13, 126, 189–92 132–3, 134, 191 mosaic form 189 Le Traquet rieur 116, 134, 135 mosaic form in Couleurs de la citec´ eleste´ Le Traquet stapazin 110–11, 120, 128–9, 192–6 130–1, 133–4 mosaic form in St Franc¸ois d’Assise Chant dans le style de Mozart 230 198–205 Chants de terre et de ciel 5, 6, 7, 10, mosaic form in La Transfiguration de 24, 25, 27 Notre-Seigneur Jesus-Christ´ 196–8 ‘Charm of Impossibilities’ 73, 106, 242 divisions in 74–5 Harawi 10, 17, 35 rhythm and pitch in 73–4 I La Ville qui dormait, toi 55, 59 serial practice in 74–5 II Bonjour toi, colombe verte 46, 49, 50 Chronochromie 77, 166 III Montagnes 51 basic techniques in 145, 147, 160 IV Doundou Tchil 50–1, 53 and ‘chord types’ in Strophe I 151–9, VI Repetition planetaire 47–9, 50, 53 164–6 VII Adieu 51 chromaesthesia 160–1, 163, 164 VIII Syllables 53, 54

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Harawi (cont.) recording 168–9, 171 IX L’Escalier redit, gestes du soleil 44–5, and Meditations´ sur le Mystere` de la 54–5 Sainte Trinite´ 169, 171–2, 175–81 X Amour oiseaux d’etoile´ 46, 54, organ registration 177–8 57–8, 59 pitch 179 XII Dans le noir 51, 59 tempo 179–82 and birds 46 rhythm 183–4 in context 36–7 Ressourcement theologians 208, 209–10 fusions of Surrealism and Catholicism 44 nouvelle theologie´ 213 and love 44–5 Orpheus myth 208, 218, 221–2 Piroutcha 45 Reveil´ des oiseaux 122, 143, 191

Hindu rhythms 53, 72, 73, 183 Sept Haı¨kaı¨145 Hymne au Saint Sacrement 30 Un sourire 230 St Franc¸ois d’Assise 77, 82–3, 89, 93, Incidental music for Dieu est Innocent 14, 145, 189 16–17 I La Croix 201 Incidental music for Fabre’s Tristan et II Les Laudes 201, 203, 204 Yseult 17 III Le Baiser au lepreux´ 201, 203–4 IV L’Ange voyageur 200, 204 Livre d’orgue 77, 143 V L’Ange musicien 200 Livre du Saint Sacrement VI Le Precheˆ aux oiseaux 200, 204, I Adoro te 77, 169, 171 204, 227–8 VII Les Stigmates 204 La Mort du nombre 4, 36 VIII La Mort et le nouvelle vie 200–1 Musique de scene` pour un Oedipe 16, 27–8 other sources for St Franc¸ois d’Assise 217–18 La Nativite´ du seigneur 7, 12 and Vatican II 216–17 Dieu parmi nous 51, 191 and Messiaen’s attitude to real life 216 Offrande au Saint Sacrement, Prelude´ , works on St Francis by other Monodie 169, 171–2 composers 218 Les Offrandes oubliees´ 9, 22, 79, 99, 119 meaning of 208 Oiseaux exotiques 121–3, 143, 191–2 narratives Oraison: ondes et orchestre 4 path to joy 206, 222–5 music leading to God 208, 225–9 Poemes` pour Mi 4, 6, 7, 10, 13, 24, 27, fear of death 208–9 30, 34, 36 apocalyptic signs 209–10 Preludes´ 6, 10, 11, 12, 24, 25, 26, 29, 31–3 Timbres-durees´ 61, 72 Quatre Etudes de rythme 147 Theme` et variations 1, 6–7, 10, 11, 12, 15, Iˆle de feu 1, 77, 148 24, 25, 27, 31 Mode de valeurs et d’intensites´ 61, 63, La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur 63–5, 70, 71, 72, 142–3 Jesus-Christ´ 92–3, 94, 95, Messiaen’s recording of 72 235, 239 use of interversions 75–6 and Vatican II 215, 216 Neumes rythmiques 122 Tristan trilogy 34–5, 60, 143 Quatuor pour la fin du Temps 1, 2–3, and love 78–80 6–7, 9–10, 13, 14–15, 17, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 36, Trois Melodies´ 6, 10, 23, 24, 27 64, 70, 80, 105–7, 108, 121, Trois Petites Liturgies de la presence´ divine 185–6, 190, 249 36, 71, 198, 238–9 Paris performances of 20 Turangalıˆla-Symphonie 61, 120, 121

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Verset pour la feteˆ de la Dedicace´ 169, Rilke, Rainer Maria 81 170–1 Rivier, Jean 5 Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jesus´ 10, 36, 38, Roussel, Albert 54, 143, 223 Symphony No. 3 9 I Regard du Pere` 181 Roustit, Albert XX Regard de l’eglise´ d’amour 79 Musical Prophesy in the History of Visions de l’Amen 16, 17, 20–33, 38 Humanity 208, 211 Un vitrail et des oiseaux 81, 82–3, 167 Ruysbroeck, Jan van 211 Vocalise-etude´ 10, 24 S N Sarnette, Eric 21, 30 Navarra, Andre´ 15 Satie, Erik 4, 22 Nietzsche, F. W. 95, 97 Sauguet, Henri 4, 5, 15 Nigg, Serge 65 Quatre Melodies´ 15 Sauvage, Cecile´ (Messiaen’s mother) 14, O 219, 222–3 Orangerie Exhibition (1942) 17–18 Schillinger, Joseph 242 Otto, Rudolf 89–90 Schmitt, Florent 5, 15 Oulipo 143 Suite en rocaille 15 Schoenberg, Arnold 63, 66, 101, 190, P 232, 240 Part,¨ Arvo 94, 233, 248 Harmonielehre 70, 242 Pasquier, Etienne 6, 7, 21–2, 185 Klavierstucke¨ Op. 33a 66–7 Pasquier, Jean 7, 11, 20–2, 26, Moses und Aron 205 31, 185 Variations for Orchestra 66 Pasquier, Pierre 7, 12 Schopenhauer, Arthur 95, 97 Peguy,´ Charles 213 Sophocles Peladan,´ Joseph 42 Oedipe 16 Penderecki, Krzysztof 232 spectralism 246–7 Penrose, Roland 43 Steinecke, Wolfgang 64 Seeing is Believing 55–7 Steiner, George 38 Picasso, Pablo Stevens, Wallace 253 The Three Graces 10 Stockhausen, Karlheinz 63, 87, 143, Piersig, Fritz 5, 19, 27 190, 232 Plato 92 moment form 195–6 Poulenc, Francis 5, 15, 26, 221 Strauss, Richard 142 Sextuor 5 Tod und Verklarung¨ 119 predestination 37 Stravinsky, Igor 4, 34, 36, 63, 65, 232 R Agon 111, 173 Rameau, J. P. 4 L’Histoire du soldat 17 Ravel, Maurice 4, 26, 232 The Rake’s Progress 230 Histoires naturelles 15 and recording 169, 170–1, recordings 173, 182 and composers 170–1, 173 Le Rossignol 22, 95, 97 future research into 186–7 Le Sacre du printemps 163 as ‘text’ 173–7, 184–5 Strobel, Heinrich 19 vitalist/geometric performance 182 commissions 19 Reich, Steve 248 Surrealism Reverdy, Pierre 35, 56–7, 58 and beauty 43 the image 43–4, 49 depaysement´ 54, 60 La Jetee´ 57–8 disponibilite´ 50 Reclame´ 58–9 fil conducteur 46

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Surrealism (cont.) V love 55, 61 Vacellier, Andre´ 6, 21, 31, 185 lyricism 44 manifestos 38–9, 40–1 W the ‘marvellous’ 40, 42, 51–3, 54, 60 Wagner, Richard 97, 166, 189 objets trouves´ 51 Tristan und Isolde 37, 61 Webern, Anton 66, 67, 232 T Symphony Op. 21 67–8, 251–2 Takemitsu, Toru 249–50 Tavener, John 94, 248 X Tippett, Michael 232 Xenakis, Iannis 232 Tomasi, Henri 5 Tournemire, Charles 37, 48, Z 116, 245 Zeffirelli, Franco Le Tryptique 15 Brother Sun, Sister Moon 214 Tual, Denis 16, 20 Zilgien, Line 20, 21, 24, 26, 28–9, 30