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Olivier Messiaen. Eclairs sur l'au-dela ... pour grand orchestre [1991]. Full score. Paris: Editions musicales Alphonse Leduc (T. Presser), c1998. [Premiere partie, nos. I a VI: instrumentation, 1 p.; list of performances, 1 p.; notes by Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen in Fr., p. 1-16; score, p. 1-162. AL 28 226. 130 [euro]. Deuxieme partie, nos. VII a XI: score, p. 1-178. AL 28 842. 130 [euro]. Duration, 75 min.]
Olivier Messiaen. La ville d'en-haut pour piano solo et petit orchestre [ 1987]. Full score and solo piano part. Paris: Alphonse Leduc (T. Presser), c1994. [Full score: note by the composer, 1 p.; list of performances, 1 p.; instrumentation, 1 p.; score, p. 1-40. AL 27 567. C67.30. Solo piano part: note by the composer, 1 p.; instrumentation, 1 p.; note on 1st performance, 1 p.; score (with orchestra reduction), 23 p. AL 28 829. 22.60. [euro]]
Olivier Messiaen. Le tombeau resplendissant pour orchestre (1931). Study score. Paris: Editions Durand (T. Presser), c1997. [Notes by Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen in Fr., Eng., 4 p.; note on 1st performance, instrumentation, 2 p.; score, 92 p. D. & F. 14 789. Duration, 151/2 min. 38.86. [euro]]
Olivier Messiaen. Chant des deportes pour choeur et orchestre [1945]. Full score. Paris: Editions Alphonse Leduc (T. Presser), c1998. [Notes in Fr., Eng., 2 p.; instrumentation, 1 p.; score, 12 p. AL 29 017. 19.70. [euro]]
Olivier Messiaen. Trois petites liturgies de la Presence divine pour piano solo, onde Martenot solo, celesta, vibraphone, percussions, choeur de voix de femmes a l'unisson et orchestre a cordes [1944]. Piano solo. Paris: Editions Durand (T. Presser), [1998], c1952. [Notes by the composer in Fr., 5 p.; placement of performers, instrumentation, note on 1st performance, 2 p.; score (with chorus and orchestra cues), 56 p. D. & F. 14 792. (23.41 [euro].]
Olivier Messiaen. Offrande au Saint Sacrement pour orgue. Paris: Editions musicales Alphonse Leduc (T. Presser), [2002], c2001. [Notes in Fr., Eng. (Olivier Latry), 1 p.; score, 5 p.; notes on Messiaen in Fr., Eng., Ger, Sp., back cover verso. AL 29 357. 9.50 [euro].]
Olivier Messiaen. Prelude pour orgue. Paris: Editions musicales Alphonse Leduc (T. Presser), c2002. [Notes in Fr., Eng. (Olivier Latry), 1 p.; score, p. 2-11; notes on Messiaen in Fr.,
Eng., Ger., Sp., back cover verso. AL 29 414. 14.70 [euro].]
With seventeen compositions and a seven-volume treatise published under his name since 1992, Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) has become more prolific in death than he was in life. The new works, sprouting as if from the grave, have been cultivated and brought to press under the guidance of Messiaen's widow, Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen. These posthumously issued scores fall into three types: [ 1) compositions completed toward the end of Messiaen's life that he did not live to see published (Un vitrail et des oiseaux [piano, winds, percussion, 1986; pub. 1992], La ville d'en-haut [piano, winds, percussion, 1987; pub. 1994], Un sourire [orchestra, 1989; pub. 1994], Piece pour piano et quatuor a cordes [1991; pub. 1992], and Eclairs sur l'au-dela ... [orchestra, 1987-91; pub. 1998]); (2) works written and published decades ago but revised between 1985 and 1990 (Apparition de l'eglise eternelle [organ, 1932; rev. 1985; reissued 1997], Turangalila-symphonie [piano, ondes Martenot, orchestra, 1946-48; rev. 1990; reissued 1992], Reveil des oiseaux [piano, orchestra, 1953; rev. 1988; reissued 2000], and Oiseaux exotiques [piano, winds, percussion, 1955-56; rev. 1985; reissued 1995]); and (3) pieces composed long before Messiaen died that he did not publish, published only in journals, or made available only on a rental basis (Feuillets inedits [piano, dudes Martenot, undated; pub. 2001], Offrande au Saint Sacrement and Prelude [organ, ca. 1930-35; pub. 2002], Le tombeau resplendissant [orchestra, 1931; pub. 1997], Piece pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas [piano, 1935; pub. 1996], Chant des deportes [chorus, orchestra, 1945; pub. 1998], Monodie [organ, 1963; pub. 1997], and Prelude [piano, 1964; pub. 2000]).
Further complicating Messiaen's bibliography has been the republication of numerous works in what appear to be unrevised reprints, although some contain additional...
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