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22 novembre 2013

Euroradio audiences will be the first to hear a new composition by the innovative French composer Olivier Messiaen who died in 1992, following the discovery of previously unseen papers.

'La Fauvette Passerinette' (Subalpine Warbler) will be performed as part of the Music in the Round autumn series at the Upper Chapel in Sheffield, England on November 24 by British pianist and musicologist Peter Hill.

The substantial 15-minute piece for piano in the composer’s birdsong style dating from 1961, was discovered by Hill among Messiaen’s sketches, the music clearly in an advanced state of completion, with several pages marked ‘page à copier’.

Messiaen travelled widely and wrote works inspired by diverse influences including Japanese music, the landscape of Bryce Canyon in Utah and the life of St. Francis of Assisi. He said he perceived colours when he heard certain musical chords – the phenomenon known as synaesthesia.

The recital will be offered to EBU Members for broadcast via the BBC on the same day or for deferred transmission.

 

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