オリヴィエ・メシアン(解説：端山貢明) (Olivier Messiaen)

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From the 端山貢明アーカイブ (Hayama Kōmei Archive), item 42517 in the 執筆記事 (articles) category, registered 2023-01-05: https://d-commons.net/hayama/?c=&p=42517. Published by the 端山貢明アーカイブプロジェクト (Hayama Kōmei Archive Project), directed by 前川道博 (Michihiro Maekawa) of Nagano University, on the D-Commons platform, and licensed CC BY (表示). The source documents come from the 端山文庫, the papers kept in Hayama's laboratory at Tohoku University of Art and Design, digitised by the project with the agreement of his family; his autograph scores were given to the University History Archives of the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2026. Source: 音楽芸術編 『２０世紀の音楽』 (Music of the Twentieth Century), Ongaku no Tomo Sha, 1965, pp. 164–167. Dated: 1965. Hayama's account of his teacher, written for a survey volume on twentieth-century music six years after he left the Paris Conservatoire. It opens with the facts: Messiaen born at Avignon in 1908, his father a Shakespeare scholar and his mother a poet; entering the Paris Conservatoire in 1919 and taking five first prizes; organist of the Trinité in Paris from 1931; taken prisoner by the German army in 1940 and freed in May 1942, after which he was brought in to teach harmony at the Conservatoire; opening his class in the philosophy of music in 1947; and visiting Japan in 1962 for the premiere there of the Turangalîla Symphony. From there Hayama turns to the man and the work, writing as one of the Japanese composers who studied in that class. It is the only piece in the archive in which he writes at length about the teacher the archive itself credits with setting his course, and it sits on the hinge of his career, a decade after the Viola Concerto and seven years before the Computer Art Center. The archive notes that its page images were taken from the National Diet Library's digital library and that the text was re-keyed because the original scan was hard to read. People named: 端山貢明 (Hayama Kōmei), オリヴィエ・メシアン (Olivier Messiaen).