Biography of Messiana Olivier

Messian was born in the southeast of France in the town of Avignon. The mother of the boy Cecil Owe is a poet, father is Pierre Messian - an English teacher. After at the age of nine, Olivier wrote the first essay - the piano play “Lady from Shalott” - parents decided that his son had great abilities. The future composer enters the Paris Conservatory at the age of 11 to the class of the composition of the Duke field.

Messian conservatory graduates in several specialties: piano, music history, improvisation, composition and organ. Then he works as an organist in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Paris. It was then that the young man is seriously fond of ornithology - a science that studies birds. Subsequently, this will become the basis of his musical language. The classification of bird songs, imitation of their voices, special love for all living things will make the compositions of Messiana special and recognizable.

According to the composer, “in nature there are never manifestations of bad taste, in it you will never find errors in lighting or color, and in the singing of birds there are never errors in the rhythm, in melody or counterpoint.” The Second World War begins in the year. Messiana is taken into the army with a simple soldier. A year later, he is captured.

In the camp, the composer writes several works that show a new level of understanding of life. One of them - “Quartet at the end of time” - in January of the year for the first time performed a group of captive musicians. After the release, Messian holds the position of professor of the class of harmony in the Paris Conservatory. The composer's name is gradually becoming known.

The musician travels a lot, gives master classes, concerts as an organist. And in the year at the same Paris Conservatory, Messian is already teaching the composition. Among his students, Karlhainz Shtokhausen and Pierre Boulez. The Messian collection has many international awards: the prizes of Ernst Siemens, Erasmus of the Rotterdam, Royal Philharmonic Society and others.

Messian explains his main principles and musical philosophy in two books. The most popular composer’s works include “three small liturgy of the Divine Presence”, the opera “St. Francis of the Assisian” and the oratorio “Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ”. And the result of immersion in the eastern culture is the symphony "Turarangalil". Olivier Messian is called the son of France - the meaning of his work is very great.

We can say that this unusually talented person created his own musical universe in which everyone will find part of himself. Legal information.