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Olivier Messiaen

Catalogue d'oiseaux, I/42

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Catalogue d'oiseaux ("Catalogue of birds") is a work for piano solo by Olivier Messiaen consisting of thirteen pieces, written between October 1956 and September 1958. It is devoted to birds and dedicated to his second wife Yvonne Loriod.

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Movements

  1. Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book I, I/42: I. Le Chocard des Alpes
  2. Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book I, I/42: II. Le Loriot
  3. Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book I, I/42: III. Le Merle bleu
  4. Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book II, I/42: IV. Le Traquet stapazin
  5. Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book III, I/42: V. La Chouette hulotte
  6. Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book III, I/42: VI. L’Alouette-lulu
  7. Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book IV, I/42: VII. Le Rousserolle effarvatte
  8. Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book V, I/42: VIII. L’Alouette calandrelle
  9. Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book V, I/42: IX. La Bouscarle
  10. Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book VI, I/42: X. Le Merle de roche
  11. Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book VII, I/42: XI. La Buse variable
  12. Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book VII, I/42: XII. La Traquet rieur
  13. Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book VII, I/42: XIII. Le Courlis cendré

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