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Anna-Maria Rentzeperi-Tsonou: The expression of religiousness in Olivier Messiaen’s oeuvre Print E-mail

The expression of religiousness in Olivier Messiaen’s (1908-1992) oeuvre

by Anna-Maria Rentzeperi-Tsonou, Lecturer, Department of Musical Science and Art, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Abstract

As Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was deeply religious, he regarded most of his works of sacred thematology as actions of faith. Most of these are attached to the meditations of the truths of the Catholic faith and borrow elements from the Bible and the writings of the Fathers of the Church, and express the Greatness of God...

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