He evoked the Apocalypse and instruments and compositional modes form the Orient and India for his Colors of the Heavenly City.
He evoked the Apocalypse and instruments and compositional modes form the Orient and India for his Colors of the Heavenly City. More in tune with his typical compositions was Exotic Birds, following along the themes of the life of St. Francis, about whom he wrote his first opera. After his first major work, the symphonic poem Forgotten Offerings, he began to teach at the Paris Conservatory and had such notable pupils as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen. FTP, name this French composer who used his World War II prison experiences for his Quartet for the End of Time.
He evoked the Apocalypse and instruments and compositional modes form the Orient and India for his Colors of the Heavenly City.
Oliver {Messiaen}