His only symphony contrasts a brass "statue theme" with a love theme inspired by Tristan and Isolde, consists of ten movements, and features the Ondes Martenot.
In 1994, Gillian Weir recorded the complete organ works of this composer, which include his frantic depiction of one of Ezekiel's visions, "The Eyes in the Wheels." His study of the 13th century musical treatise Sangita-Ratnakara inspired the Indian rhythms he used in works such as Canteyodjaya. This composer divided the scale into seven "modes of limited transposition," which he described in his book The Technique of My Musical Language. For his second wife, Yvonne Loriod, he composed a set of twenty piano pieces, Vingt regards sur l'enfant-JÃ©sus. His only symphony contrasts a brass "statue theme" with a love theme inspired by Tristan and Isolde, consists of ten movements, and features the Ondes Martenot. A passage about an angel in the Book of Revelation inspired a string quartet he composed in a German POW camp during World War II. For 10 points, name this French composer of the symphony Turangalila and Quartet for the End of Time.
In 1994, Gillian Weir recorded the complete organ works of this composer, which include his frantic depiction of one of Ezekiel's visions, "The Eyes in the Wheels."
Olivier Messiaen