La fauvette des jardins

La fauvette des jardins is a work for piano by the French composer Olivier Messiaen, written in 1970. The piece is based principally on the song of the garden warbler, the French name of which is the title of the composition, but features eighteen other birds. The imagined setting of the piece is the Dauphiny mountains of Isère during a mid-summer night and the following day.^[1]

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Olivier Messiaen
Compositions	Le Banquet Céleste (1928) Préludes (1928–29) Apparition de l'église éternelle (1932) Thème et variations (1932) L'ascension (1932–33) La Nativité du Seigneur (1935) Fête des belles eaux (1937) Quatuor pour la fin du temps (1940–41) Visions de l'Amen (1943) Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine (1943–44) Harawi (1944) Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus (1944) Turangalîla-Symphonie (1946–48) Cantéyodjayâ (1949) Quatre études de rythme (1949–50) Messe de la Pentecôte (1949–50) Le merle noir (1952) Chronochromie (1959–60) Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (1964) La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ (1965–69) La fauvette des jardins (1970) Des canyons aux étoiles... (1971–74) Saint François d'Assise (opera) (1975–83) Éclairs sur l'au-delà... (1988–92) Concert à quatre (1990–91) Feuillets inedits (2001)
Family	Claire Delbos (first wife) Yvonne Loriod (second wife)
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List of compositions by Olivier Messiaen