Person/Olivier Messiaen

• Olivier Messiaen

  • About

    • French composer, organist and ornithologist (1908–1992).
    • Set out his modes of limited transposition in Technique de mon langage musical (1944).
    • Taught at the Paris Conservatoire. His pupils included Person/Iannis Xenakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez, and Person/Pierre Henry studied with him.