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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

'''Olivier Messiaen'''; (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. His many distinguished pupils included [[Pierre Boulez]], Yvonne Loriod (who later became Messiaen's second wife), [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], [[wikipedia:Iannis Xenakis|Iannis Xenakis]] and George Benjamin.

Further reading:
[[wikipedia:Olivier Messiaen|Olivier Messiaen]]
[[Category:Musicians]]

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 * [[wikipedia:Olivier Messiaen|Olivier Messiaen]]
-[[Category:Composers|Messiaen, Olivier]]
+[[Category:Classical Composers|Messiaen, Olivier]]
 [[Category:Organists|Messiaen, Olivier]]
-[[Category:Favorite Artists|Messiaen, Olivier]]
+[[Category:Favorite Classical Composers|Messiaen, Olivier]]

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-[[Image:O_Messiaen.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Olivier Messiaen, © Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen]]
+[[Image:O_Messiaen.jpg|500px|right|thumb|Olivier Messiaen, © Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen.]]
 '''Olivier Messiaen'''; (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. Messiaen is known for his pure, colorful and often experimental music which celebrates both nature and his Christian faith. His many distinguished pupils included [[Pierre Boulez]], Yvonne Loriod (who later became Messiaen's second wife), [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], [[Iannis Xenakis]] and George Benjamin.
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 FZ said of Messiaen in an [[The Mother Of All Interviews (Part 2)|interview with Don Menn]] in 1992;
-<blockquote>"I like Messiaen. Took me a while, but I like that music. He's colorful. But I must admit that the first Messiaen album that I ever got was an ''Angel'' recording of ''Chronochromie'', and it baffled the snot out of me. I didn't know what to do with it. I could stay interested for about the first three minutes. I was going, "Whoa, a lot of percussion; that's interesting, but what is this?" It took me years before I could listen to that whole side of the album straight through".</blockquote>
+<blockquote>''"I like Messiaen. Took me a while, but I like that music. He's colorful. But I must admit that the first Messiaen album that I ever got was an ''Angel'' recording of ''Chronochromie'', and it baffled the snot out of me. I didn't know what to do with it. I could stay interested for about the first three minutes. I was going, "Whoa, a lot of percussion; that's interesting, but what is this?" It took me years before I could listen to that whole side of the album straight through"''.</blockquote>
 Zappa played a piece of ''"Chronochromie"'' during the radio special ''[[Musik Für Junge Leute]]''.
-==Further reading==
+==External links==
 * [[wikipedia:Olivier Messiaen|Olivier Messiaen]]
 [[Category:Composers|Messiaen, Olivier]]
 [[Category:Favorite Artists|Messiaen, Olivier]]

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 '''Olivier Messiaen'''; (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. Messiaen is known for his pure, colorful and often experimental music which celebrates both nature and his Christian faith. His many distinguished pupils included [[Pierre Boulez]], Yvonne Loriod (who later became Messiaen's second wife), [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], [[Iannis Xenakis]] and George Benjamin.
-FZ said of [[Olivier Messiaen]] in an [[The Mother Of All Interviews (Part 2)|interview with Don Menn]] in 1992;
+FZ said of Messiaen in an [[The Mother Of All Interviews (Part 2)|interview with Don Menn]] in 1992;
 <blockquote>"I like Messiaen. Took me a while, but I like that music. He's colorful. But I must admit that the first Messiaen album that I ever got was an ''Angel'' recording of ''Chronochromie'', and it baffled the snot out of me. I didn't know what to do with it. I could stay interested for about the first three minutes. I was going, "Whoa, a lot of percussion; that's interesting, but what is this?" It took me years before I could listen to that whole side of the album straight through".</blockquote>
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 Zappa played a piece of ''"Chronochromie"'' during the radio special ''[[Musik Für Junge Leute]]''.
-Further reading:
+==Further reading==
-[[wikipedia:Olivier Messiaen|Olivier Messiaen]]
+* [[wikipedia:Olivier Messiaen|Olivier Messiaen]]
-[[Category:Composers|Messiaen, Olivier]] [[Category:Favorite Artists|Messiaen, Olivier]] [[Category:Musicians|Messiaen, Olivier]]
+[[Category:Composers|Messiaen, Olivier]]

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 [[Image:O_Messiaen.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Olivier Messiaen, © Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen]]
-'''Olivier Messiaen'''; (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. His many distinguished pupils included [[Pierre Boulez]], Yvonne Loriod (who later became Messiaen's second wife), [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], [[wikipedia:Iannis Xenakis|Iannis Xenakis]] and George Benjamin.
+'''Olivier Messiaen'''; (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. Messiaen is known for his pure, colorful and often experimental music which celebrates both nature and his Christian faith. His many distinguished pupils included [[Pierre Boulez]], Yvonne Loriod (who later became Messiaen's second wife), [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], [[Iannis Xenakis]] and George Benjamin.
-FZ said of [[Olivier Messiaen]] in an [[The Mother Of All Interviews (Part 2)|interview with Don Menn]] in 1982;
+FZ said of [[Olivier Messiaen]] in an [[The Mother Of All Interviews (Part 2)|interview with Don Menn]] in 1992;
 <blockquote>"I like Messiaen. Took me a while, but I like that music. He's colorful. But I must admit that the first Messiaen album that I ever got was an ''Angel'' recording of ''Chronochromie'', and it baffled the snot out of me. I didn't know what to do with it. I could stay interested for about the first three minutes. I was going, "Whoa, a lot of percussion; that's interesting, but what is this?" It took me years before I could listen to that whole side of the album straight through".</blockquote>
 Further reading:
 [[wikipedia:Olivier Messiaen|Olivier Messiaen]]
-[[Category:Composers|Messiaen, Olivier]] [[Category:Favorite Music|Messiaen, Olivier]] [[Category:Musicians|Messiaen, Olivier]]

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