Composer Olivier Messiaen

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Composer

Olivier Messiaen

Living place: Avignon

Birthday: 10-12-1908

Global rank: #60440

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Who is Composer Olivier Messiaen?
French composer, ornithologist, and organist who was one of the great composers of the 20th century. He is known for his intricate rhythms that are inspired by Greek and Hindu repertoire. . He frequently used the method of constrained displacement.
He has been influenced by many aspects of his life, including his Roman Catholic faith, Japanese music, the Bryce Canyon landscape in Wyoming, and the life and work of St. Francis into Assisi.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He enrolled at the Paris Institute at the age of 11. He was made a prisoner of war in France during World War II, where he composed and performed a piece of chamber music with his prisoners.

Family life info

He married violinist Claire Delbos in 1932.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Composer Olivier Messiaen?
He studied the composition under Paul Dukas at the Paris Institute.

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When was Composer Olivier Messiaen born?
Olivier Messiaen was born in 10-12-1908, death year is , at the age of 116.
Where is Composer Olivier Messiaen's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Olivier Messiaen was born in Avignon, of France. is a Composer, whose Zodiac is Sagittarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Monkey. Olivier Messiaen's global rank is 60440 and whose rank is 476 in list of famous Composer.
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Events in 1908 and 10-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Olivier Messiaen

  • Earthquake and resulting tsunami kill 70,000 to 100,000 in southern Italy and Sicily.
  • Petroleum production starts in Middle East.
  • Mysterious Siberian explosion levels hundreds of square miles of forest. Explanations include a comet, meteorite, natural atomic explosion, or crashed UFO.

Birthday Olivier Messiaen (10-12) in history

  • Day 10-12 year 1817: Mississippi became the 20th state in the United States.
  • Day 10-12 year 1869: The territory of Wyoming authorized women to vote and hold office.
  • Day 10-12 year 1901: The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.
  • Day 10-12 year 1948: The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
  • Day 10-12 year 1950: Dr. Ralph Bunche became the first black to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Day 10-12 year 1964: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., received the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Day 10-12 year 1999: Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee was arrested and charged with stealing classified information.
  • Day 10-12 year 2004: A U.S. passenger jet landed in Vietnam, the first one to do so since the Vietnam War ended nearly three decades earlier.
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