Best regards.

The article analyzes the two volumes on "Messiaen perspectives: techniques, influence and reception" edited by Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon Ashgate, which explore the music of French composer and organist Olivier Messiaen. Messiaen is described as composing music using direct depiction or symbolic encoding that embodies religious or emotional commentaries, and greatly influenced by classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He was also known to compose birdsongs and metaphysical music.