Mixolydian Wrote:Completely disagree with whoever said this (sorry can't remember who). Messaien hasn't had that much effect on keyboard music to be honest.
I think the claim was that Messiaen made the greatest (in both senses) body of 20th Century keyboard music, not that his music was especially influential on anybody else â it wasn't... Messiaen had his own unique vision â and in his own teaching he stressed that his pupils find their own visions too
Mixolydian Wrote:'Modern' music started with Debussy and if anyone this century could be said to have been the most significant keyboard composer it would probably be him.
there is truth in that â Messiaen's early piano works owe a fair bit to Debussy (although they're already distinctively Messaien)
Mixolydian Wrote:He isn't that much earlier than Glass either - he only died in 1992.
hmmmm
Philip Glass â born 1937
by which time Messiaen had already written these...
1917 La dame de Shalott - Piano
1921 Deux ballades de Villon - Voice & Piano
1925 La tristesse d'un grand ciel blanc - Piano
1927 Esquisse modale - Organ
1928 Fugue in D Minor - Orchestral
1928 L'hôte aimable des âmes - Organ
1928 La banquet eucharistique - Orchestral
1928 Le banquet céleste - Organ (Leduc)
1928 Variations écossaises - Organ
1928-29 Préludes - Piano (Durand)
1930 Diptyque - Organ (Durand)
1930 La mort du nombre - Vocal/Chamber - sop, ten, violin, piano (Durand)
1930 Les offrandes oubliées - Orchestral (Durand)
1930 Les offrandes Oubliées - Piano version (Durand)
1930/35 Offrande au Saint Sacrement - Organ (Leduc)
1930 Simple chant d'une âme - Orchestral
1930 Trois mélodies - Voice & Piano (Durand)
1932 Apparition de l'église éternelle - Organ (Lemoine)
1932 Fantaisie Burlesque - Piano (Durand)
1932 Hymne au Saint Sacrament - Orchestral (Bro)
1932 Thème et variations - Chamber - violin & piano (Leduc)
1932-33 L'Ascension - Orchestral (Leduc)
1933 Fantasie - Chamber - violin & piano
1933 Mass - Vocal - 8 sopranos 4 violins
1933-34 L'Ascension - Organ (Leduc)
1934 5 Leçons de Solfege a chanter - treble clef & piano accom. (Lemoine)
1934 Morceau for Piano
1935 La Nativité du Seigneur - Organ (Leduc)
1935 Pièce pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas - Piano (Durand)
1935 Vocalise - Voice & piano (Leduc)
1936 Poèmes pour Mi - Vocal - sop & piano (Durand)
1937 O sacrum convivium - Vocal SATB or sop & organ (Durand)
1937 Poèmes pour Mi - Sop & Orchestra (Durand)
1937 Fêtes des Belles Eaux - Ondes Martenots