About this minute
- Title
- Liturgie de Cristal (from Quartet for the End of Time)
- Conductor
- Reinbert de Leeuw
- Creator
- Olivier Messaien
- Performer
- Netherlands Wind Ensemble
- Collections
- Collection 2
Collection 2 #20
This piece of music was written by French composer Olivier Messiaen. Messiaen liked to listen to the sound of birds singing and often tried to copy their sounds in his music. He was famous for taking long walks in the woods at different times of day and night, and writing down all of the bird…