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DOI:https://doi.org/10.25807/22225064_2021_61_202
The outstanding composer of the twentieth century, the talented French musicianperformer and theorist Olivier Messiaen combined creative and research activities as a composer and professional ornithologist. From adolescence until his very last days, he studied and recorded the voices of birds, traveling across French provinces and various countries of the world. Thanks to fi eld expeditions, Messiaen managed to collect a catalog of songbirds from all continents. Studying at the conservatory, he received support for his aspirations from the famous composer and teacher Paul Dukas, who considered birds to be excellent teachers in music. The history of the world culture indicates that composers have repeatedly admired the voices of birds and captured timbre colors, rhythms, and melodic fi gures resembling bird singing in their music. The life of nature was inseparable from the space of art. In the process of creative adaptation of symmetrical modes, polyrhythm and polyharmony, as well as the search for complex types of piano texture and new musical material that can reproduce bird singing in the sounds of instruments, Messiaen developed his own melodics, rhythm, timbre qualities, as well as original sound complexes that replaced the previous chords, creating an individual style that infl uenced several generations of modern composers This style became universally signifi cant and defi ned the modern language of the new piano music of our time.
Keywords: Olivier Messiaen, piano music, bird catalogue, new musical material, sonorism, clusters.
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