Favourite French composer, organist, ornithologist, legendary composer of 20th century. Music is rhythmically complex, harmonically, melodically perfect.
Wrote beautiful music for chamber ensembles, orchestra, vocal music, religious pieces for solo organ and piano. Experimented with use of novel electronic instrument sounds. His vibrant use of colour, relationships between time and music was distinctive.
Turangalîla-Symphonie, a marvellous piece of orchestral music with peace, passion, love, joy, desires. Timeless, inspiring and innovative pieces of music.
Turangalîla combines two Sanskrit words – turanga, meaning time which flows, movement or rhythm and lîla, meaning cosmic love with acts of creation, destruction and reconstruction, the play of life and death.
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