Cécile Sauvage
Cécile Anne Marie Antoinette Sauvage (20 July 1883 – 26 August 1927) was a French poet. She was the author of collections ''Tandis que la terre tourne'' (1910) and ''Le Vallon'' (1913). Her love poetry was posthumously collected and published by Béatrice Marchal in the volume ''Cécile Sauvage: Écrits d'amour'' (2009). Sauvage was the mother of French composer Olivier Messiaen. In Francophone circles, she is often called the 'poetess of maternity'. Biography Sauvage was born in La Roche-sur-Yon on 20 July 1883. Her father, Gal Prosper Sauvage, was a schoolteacher, married to Marie-Eugénie Jolivet. In 1888, Sauvage's family moved to Provence, where she subsequently grew up in Digne-les-Bains alongside her younger sister, Germaine, and brother, André. At twenty years old, Sauvage wrote a long poem, "''Les trois Muses''" (The Three Muses. Her father, who encouraged his daughter in her literary endeavors, passed along the work to the poet Frédéric Mistral, who further ...
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Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist who was one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex; harmonically and melodically he employs a system he called ''modes of limited transposition'', which he abstracted from the systems of material generated by his early compositions and improvisations. He wrote music for chamber ensembles and orchestra, vocal music, as well as for solo organ and piano, and also experimented with the use of novel electronic instruments developed in Europe during his lifetime. Messiaen entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 11 and studied with Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré, among others. He was appointed organist at the Église de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris, in 1931, a post held for 61 years until his death. He taught at the Schola Cantorum de Paris during the 1930s. After the ...
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