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Messiaen, Olivier : Préludes

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Music ID : 246
Composition Year:1929 
Instrumentation:Piano Solo 
Genre:pieces
Total Playing Time:37 min 30 sec
Copyright:Under Copyright Protection

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Author : Hirano, Takatoshi

Last Updated: January 20, 2014
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

Messiaen's Préludes is his first important piano work. Preceding this work are piano pieces such as La Dame de Shalott (1917) and La Tristesse du grand ciel blanc (1925), works that Messiaen, then under the age of 10, first attempted to compose. However, Préludes stands as the first work clearly imprinted with Messiaen's unique idiom, heralding the dawn of his magnificent later musical world. While the poetic titles given to each piece evoke Debussy's Préludes, the common elements in their musical language are not particularly pronounced, and Messiaen appears to have striven to distance himself from Debussy's world. Indeed, Préludes was a work submitted by Messiaen towards the end of his eleven-year period of study (1919-1930) at the Paris Conservatoire, and through presenting this collection to the public, Messiaen sought to demonstrate to the Parisian musical world that he possessed sufficient talent to pursue an independent career as a composer.

Movements (8)

"La colombe"

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"Chant d'extase dans un paysage triste"

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"Le nombre léger"

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"Instants défunts"

Total Performance Time: 4 min 30 sec 

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"Les sons impalpables du rêve"

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"Cloches d'angoissse et larmes d'adeu"

Total Performance Time: 7 min 30 sec 

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"Plainte calme"

Total Performance Time: 3 min 30 sec 

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"Un reflet dans le vent"

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