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Life of Messiaen

Name: Life of Messiaen
Author: Christopher Dingle
ISBN: 9780521632201

by Christopher Dingle

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Synopsis

An accessible study of the life and works of the twentieth-century composer Olivier Messiaen.

About the Author, Christopher Dingle

Christopher Dingle is Assistant Course Director (BMus) at Birmingham Conservatoire. In addition to the acclaimed biography The Life of Messiaen (CUP), he is author of Messiaen's Final Works (Ashgate, forthcoming), and co-editor with Nigel Simeone of Olivier Messiaen: Music, Art & Literature (Ashgate, 2007). He is the organiser of the Messiaen 2008 International Centenary Conference at Birmingham Conservatoire, having conceived and organised the watershed Messiaen 2002 Conference at Sheffield University. His research interests also include the history and function of Music Criticism and Twentieth Century performance practice. He is on the review panel for BBC Music Magazine and contributes regularly to Tempo.