by Christopher Dingle (Author)
When Olivier Messiaen (1902-1992) completed the vast opera Saint Francois d'Assise in 1983, he was mentally and physically exhausted, and believed that this monumental work would be his final compositional statement. Seven further works emerged, however, and these form the focus of the present study. Christopher Dingle suggests that.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 390
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 03 Jan 2013
ISBN 10: 0754606333
ISBN 13: 9780754606338