Olivier Messiaen: A Bibliographical Catalogue of Messiaen's Works.(Review)

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Olivier Messiaen: A Bibliographical Catalogue of Messiaen's Works. By Nigel Simeone. (Musikbibliographische Arbeiten, 14.) Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1998. [xix, 249 p. ISBN 3-7952-0947-1. DM 142.]

The first thing that strikes the reader about this book is the obvious amount of work that has gone into it: painstaking research in the Bibliotheque Nationale, for example, as well as in "publishers' archives or hire libraries ... and other public and private collections in France and England" (p. v). Yet there is some confusion from the start. On the spine, the title is ...

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