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Messiaen PersPectives 1: sources and influences For Yvonne Loriod Messiaen Perspectives 1: Sources and Influences edited by christoPher dingle Birmingham Conservatoire, UK robert fallon Carnegie Mellon University, USA © christopher dingle, robert fallon and the contributors 2013 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. christopher dingle and robert fallon have asserted their right under the copyright, designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by ashgate Publishing limited ashgate Publishing company Wey court east 110 cherry street union road suite 3-1 farnham burlington, vt 05401-3818 surrey, gu9 7Pt usa england www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Messiaen perspectives / edited by christopher dingle and robert fallon. volumes cm includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4094-2695-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-4724-1515-8 (ebook) —ISBN 978-1-4724-1516-5 (epub) 1. Messiaen, Olivier, 1908–1992—Criticism and interpretation. i. dingle, christopher Philip, editor. ii. fallon, robert, editor. Ml410.M595M494 2013 780.92—dc23 2013007758 ISBN 9781409426950 (hbk) ISBN 9781472415158 (ebk – PDF) ISBN 9781472415165 (ebk – ePUB) bach musicological font developed by © Yo tomita IV Contents List of Illustrations vii List of Figures and Tables ix List of Music Examples xi Acknowledgements xv Editors’ Note xvii Introduction 1 Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon Part I SourceS Perspectives on Sources 9 Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon 1 Olivier Messiaen and the Prix de Rome as Rite of Passage 13 Laura Hamer and Christopher Brent Murray 2 Olivier Messiaen and Portique pour une fille de France 45 Lucie Kayas and Christopher Brent Murray 3 Formal Genesis in the Sketches for Visions de l’Amen 69 Yves Balmer 4 From Music for the Radio to a Piano Cycle: Sources for the Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus 85 Lucie Kayas 5 My Collaboration with Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod on Harawi 101 Sigune von Osten 6 Olivier Messiaen’s Timbres-durées 123 Christopher Brent Murray 7 From Réveil des oiseaux to Catalogue d’oiseaux: Messiaen’s Cahiers de notations des chants d’oiseaux, 1952–59 143 Peter Hill vi Messiaen Perspectives 1: Sources and Influences 8 In the Beginning Was The Word? An Exploration of the Origins of Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité 175 Anne Mary Keeley Intermède 9 Yvonne Loriod as Source and Influence 197 Christopher Dingle Part II InfluenceS Perspectives on Influences 213 Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon 10 Messiaen and Mozart: A Love without Influence? 217 Christopher Dingle 11 Messiaen and the Romantic Gesture: Contemplations on his Piano Music and Pianism 235 Caroline Rae 12 Messiaen and the Problem of Communication 257 Julian Anderson 13 Messiaen and Art Sacré 269 Stephen Broad 14 Messiaen, the Cinq Rechants and ‘Spiritual Violence’ 279 Philip Weller 15 Messiaen in Retrospect 313 Hugh Macdonald Appendix: Yvonne Loriod Discography 323 Christopher Dingle Select Bibliography 339 Discography 351 Notes on Contributors 353 Index 361 Contents of Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception 369 List of Illustrations 1.1 Paul Dukas’s letter of recommendation 20 1.2 Ministerial document listing the 1930 candidates for the Prix de Rome competition 20 2.1 Dignitaries’ stand, Gerland Stadium 50 2.2 The programme for the Marseilles version of Portique 51 2.3 General view of the Gerland Stadium with stage, orchestra, tents for extras and amplification system 53 2.4 An image of the dress rehearsal for Portique in Lyon 54 2.5 The costume design for Joan of Arc by Jean Le Moal 54 2.6 The set design for the Orléans tableau by Jean Le Moal 55 2.7 Laurence Aubray as Joan of Arc during a rehearsal 56 2.8 Joan of Arc and her cavalry heralds 56 2.9 The living cathedral 57 2.10 An image from the coronation scene during which Messiaen’s Te Deum would have been heard 58 2.11 Pierre Schaeffer, Léo Preger and Jean Witkowski during a rehearsal for Portique pour une fille de France 59 2.12 Jean Witkowski directing the orchestra in a rehearsal for Portique 59 5.1 Sigune von Osten rehearsing Harawi with Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod, Bratislava, 7 December 1987 102 5.2 Letter from Yvonne Loriod to the author, 10 October 1988 103 5.3 Letter from Yvonne Loriod to the author, 28 May 1997 103 5.4 Letter from Yvonne Loriod to the author, 29 December 1987 104 5.5 Sigune von Osten rehearsing Harawi with Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod, Bratislava, 7 December 1987 104 5.6 Sigune von Osten, Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod after performing Harawi, Bratislava, 7 December 1987 120 5.7 Messiaen’s dedication to the author in her score of Harawi, Madrid 1988 120 5.8 Letter from Yvonne Loriod to the author, 6 December 1993 121 8.1 Illumination on parchment, unknown Netherlandish artist, from the well-known early fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript Très Belles Heures de Notre Dame de Jean de Berry 190 This page has been left blank intentionally List of Figures and Tables Figures 8.1 Information supplied in the publicity poster for the event at the Trinité 177 8.2 A summary of the theological elements in the Méditations 182 8.3 Chiastic structure of the Méditations 183 8.4 Textural and thematic relationships in the Méditations 184 8.5 Summary of overall musical structure of the Méditations 185 8.6 Music and theology in the fifth meditation 192 Tables 1.1 Placement of the candidates in the 1930 Prix de Rome competition 21 1.2 Candidates for the 1931 Prix de Rome competition 23 1.3 Voting record for the 1931 Prix de Rome competition 26 1.4 Formal structure of Olivier Messiaen’s La Sainte Bohème 34 1.5 Formal structure of Olivier Messiaen’s La Jeunesse des vieux 40 3.1 Three versions of Visions de l’Amen donated by Messiaen to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in 1950 70 3.2 Forms of Visions in BnF Music Department Ms. 9138 73 6.1 Symmetrical permutations of the four personnages in sequences 1–24 133 6.2 Permutations and symmetries in Personnage A 135 6.3 Transformations of Personnage B 137

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