LIST
OF WORKS
Published *
Le banquet céleste ("The heavenly banquet"), organ (1928, a recomposition of a
section from his unpublished orchestral piece Le banquet eucharistique)
*
Préludes, piano (1928–29) * Diptyque ("Diptych"), organ (1930)
* La mort
du nombre ("The death of numbers"), soprano, tenor, violin and piano (1930)
*
Les offrandes oubliées ("The forgotten offerings"), orchestra (1930)
*
Trois mélodies, song cycle (1930)
* Apparition de l'église éternelle ("Apparition
of the eternal church"), organ (1932)
* Fantaisie burlesque, piano (1932)
*
Hymne au Saint Sacrement ("Hymn to the Holy Sacrament"), orchestra (1932, lost
1943, reconstructed from memory 1946)
* Thème et variations, ("Theme and
Variations") violin and piano (1932)
* L'ascension ("The Ascension"), orchestra
(1932–33; organ version including replacement movement, 1933–34)
* La nativité
du seigneur ("The Lord's nativity"), organ (1935)
* Pièce pour le tombeau
de Paul Dukas ("Piece written as a memorial of Paul Dukas"), piano, (1935)
*
Vocalise, voice and piano (1935)
* Poèmes pour Mi ("Poems for Mi"), song
cycle (1936, orchestral version 1937)
* O sacrum convivium!, choral motet
(1937)
* Chants de terre et de ciel ("Songs of earth and heaven"), song
cycle (1938)
* Les corps glorieux ("Glorious bodies"), organ (1939)
*
Quatuor pour la fin du temps ("Quartet for the end of time"), violin, cello, clarinet,
piano (1940–41)
* Rondeau, piano (1943)
* Visions de l'Amen ("Visions
of the Amen"), two pianos (1943)
* Trois petites liturgies de la présence
divine ("Three small liturgies of the Divine Presence"), women's voices, piano
solo, ondes Martenot solo, orchestra (1943–44)
* Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus
("Twenty gazes on the Christ-child"), piano (1944)
* Harawi: Chants d'amour
et de mort, ("Harawi: Songs of love and death") song cycle (1944)
* Turangalîla-Symphonie,
piano solo, ondes Martenot solo, orchestra (1946–48)
* Cinq rechants, 12
singers (1948)
* Cantéyodjayâ, piano (1949)
* Messe de la Pentecôte
("Pentecost mass"), organ (1949–50)
* Quatre études de rythme ("Four studies
in rhythm"), piano (1949–50)
1. Île de feu 1
2. Mode de valeurs
et d'intensités
3. Neumes rhythmiques
4. Île de feu 2
*
Le merle noir ("Blackbird"), flute and piano (1952[50])
* Livre d'orgue,
organ (1951–2)
* Réveil des oiseaux ("Dawn chorus"), solo piano and orchestra
(1953)
* Oiseaux exotiques ("Exotic birds"), solo piano and orchestra (1955–56)
*
Catalogue d'oiseaux ("Bird catalogue"), piano (1956–58)
Book 1
i
Le chocard des alpes ("Alpine chough")
ii Le loriot ("Golden oriole")
(loriot and Loriod are homophones)
iii Le merle bleu ("Blue rock thrush")
Book
2
iv Le traquet stapazin ("Black-eared wheatear")
Book
3
v La chouette hulotte ("Tawny owl")
vi L'alouette lulu
("Woodlark")
Book 4
vii La rousserolle effarvatte ("Reed
warbler")
Book 5
viii L'alouette calandrelle ("Short-toed
lark")
ix La bouscarle ("Cetti's warbler")
Book 6
x
Le merle de roche ("Rufous-tailed rock thrush")
Book 7
xi
La buse variable ("Buzzard")
xii Le traquet rieur ("Black wheatear")
xiii
Le courlis cendré ("Curlew")
* Chronochromie ("Time-colour"), orchestra
(1959–60)
* Verset pour la fête de la dédicace ("Verse for the festival
of dedication"), organ (1960)
* Sept haïkaï ("Seven haikus"), solo piano
and orchestra (1962)
* Couleurs de la cité céleste ("Colours of the Celestial
City"), solo piano and ensemble (1963)
* Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
("And I look forward to the resurrection of the dead"), wind, brass and percussion
(1964)
* La transfiguration de notre seigneur Jésus-Christ ("The Transfiguration
of Our Lord Jesus Christ"), large 10-part chorus, piano solo, cello solo, flute
solo, clarinet solo, xylorimba solo, vibraphone solo, large orchestra (1965–69)
*
Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité ("Meditations on the mystery of
the Holy Trinity"), organ (1969)
* La fauvette des jardins ("Garden warbler"),
piano (1970)
* Des canyons aux étoiles… ("From the canyons to the stars..."),
solo piano, solo horn, solo glockenspiel, solo xylorimba, small orchestra with
13 string players (1971–74)
* Saint-François d'Assise ("St Francis of Assisi"),
opera (1975–1983)
* Livre du Saint Sacrement ("Book of the Holy Sacrament"),
organ (1984)
* Petites esquisses d'oiseaux ("Small sketches of birds"),
piano (1985)
* Un vitrail et des oiseaux ("Stained-glass window and birds"),
piano solo, brass, wind and percussion (1986)
* La ville d'en-haut ("The
city on high"), piano solo, brass, wind and percussion (1987)
* Un sourire
("A smile"), orchestra (1989)
* Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes ("Piece
for piano and string quartet") (1991)
* Éclairs sur l'au-delà… ("Illuminations
on the beyond..."), orchestra (1988–92) Unpublished,
posthumously published, or lost A
number of Messiaen's compositions were not sanctioned by the composer for publication.
They include the following, some of which have been published posthumously, and
some of which are lost.
* La dame de Shallott, for piano (1917)
*
La banquet eucharistique, for orchestra (1928)
* Variations écossaises,
for organ (1928)
* Mass, 8 sopranos and 4 violins (1933)
* Fantaisie,
for violin and piano (1933; published 2007)
* Fêtes des belles eaux, for
six ondes Martenots (1937)
* Musique de scène pour un Œdipe, electronic
(1942)
* Chant des déportés, chorus and orchestra (1945, then lost, rediscovered
1991)
* Timbres-durées, musique concrète (1952), realised by Pierre Henry
in the radiophonic workshop of French radio, an experiment which Messiaen later
deemed a failure[51]
* Feuillets inedits for piano and ondes martenot (published
2001)
* Concert à quatre ("Quadruple concerto"), piano, flute, oboe, cello
and orchestra (1990–91, almost finished at the time of his death, completed by
Loriod and Benjamin) Treatises *
Technique de mon langage musical ("The technique of my musical language"). Paris:
Leduc, 1944.
* Vingt leçons d'harmonie ("20 harmony lessons"). Paris: Leduc,
1944.
* Traité de rythme, de couleur, et d’ornithologie (1949–1992) ("Treatise
on rhythm, colour and ornithology"), completed by Yvonne Loriod. 7 parts bound
in 8 volumes. Paris: Leduc, 1994–2002.
* Analyses of the Piano Works of
Maurice Ravel, edited by Yvonne Loriod, translated by Paul Griffiths. [Paris]:
Durand, 2005. | |
