20th Century · Open Opus catalog
Olivier Messiaen
1908 – 1992
Chord Barn does not yet hold an IMSLP-sourced piano score collection for Olivier Messiaen. This page presents the composer and work catalog data published by Open Opus, a public-domain (CC0) classical-music metadata project, so the work list below is bibliographic — titles, subtitles, and genre classifications — not a set of downloadable PDF editions.
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Works by Olivier Messiaen in the Open Opus catalog
64 works · Data from Open Opus (openopus.org), released into the public domain (CC0) — fetched 2026-09-11. Catalog entries only: title, subtitle, and genre classification as published by Open Opus. These are not downloadable score editions.
By genre, from Open Opus’s own classification on this composer’s work records: 24 Keyboard · 17 Orchestral · 10 Chamber · 12 Vocal · 1 Stage.
- 3 Mélodies, for soprano and piano, I/4Vocal
- 3 petites liturgies de la Présence Divine, for women's chorus, piano, ondes martenot, percussion and strings, I/26Vocal
- 4 Études de rhythme, I/32-35Keyboard
- 4 Feuillets inédits, for ondes martenot and pianoChamber
- 5 Rechants, for 12 voices, I/31Vocal
- 6 Petites esquisses d'oiseaux, I/54Keyboard
- 7 Haïkaï, for piano, 13 winds, 6 percussion, and 8 violins, I/45Orchestral
- 8 Preludes, I/2Keyboard
- Apparition de l'église éternelle, I/8Keyboard
- Cantéyodjayâ, I/30Keyboard
- Catalogue d'oiseaux, I/42Keyboard
- Chant des déportés pour choeur mixte et grand orchestreVocal
- Chants de terre et de ciel, song cycle for soprano and piano, I/19Vocal
- Chronochromie, for large orchestra, I/43Orchestral
- Concert à quatre, for flute, cello, piano and orchestra, I/62Orchestral
- Couleurs de la cité céleste, for piano, 13 winds and 6 percussion, I/46Chamber
- Des Canyons aux étoiles, for piano and orchestra, I/51Orchestral
- Dieu parmi nousKeyboard
- Diptyque, I/3Keyboard
- Eclairs sur l'au-delá, I/61Orchestral
- Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum, for 34 winds and 3 percussion, I/47Orchestral
- Fantaisie burlesque, I/11Keyboard
- Fantasie, for violin and piano, II/12Chamber
- Fête des belles eaux, for 6 ondes martenot, II/14Chamber
- Harawi, for soprano and piano, I/28 — Song cycleVocal
- Hymne, I/9Orchestral
- L' Ascension, 4 meditations, I/12aOrchestral
- La Fauvette des jardins, I/50Keyboard
- La Mort du nombre, for soprano, tenor, violin and piano, I/6Vocal
- La Nativité du Seigneur, 9 meditations, I/14Keyboard
- La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ, for 100 voices, piano, cello, flute, clarinet, xylorimba, vibrophone, marimba, and orchestra, I/48Vocal
- La Ville d'en haut, for 31 winds, piano, and percussion, I/56Orchestral
- Le banquet céleste, I/1Keyboard
- Le Corps glorieux, 7 brief visions, I/20Keyboard
- Le merle noir, for flute and piano, I/37Chamber
- Le Tombeau resplendissant, I/7Orchestral
- Leçons de solfège, exercises for voiceVocal
- Les Offrandes oubliées, méditations symphoniques, I5/a,bOrchestral
- Livre d'orgue, I/38Keyboard
- Livre du Saint-Sacrement, I/53Keyboard
- Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, I/49Keyboard
- Messe de la Pentecôte, I/36Keyboard
- Monodie, I/45aKeyboard
- O sacrum convivium!, I/18Vocal
- Offrande au Saint-SacrementKeyboard
- Oiseaux exotiques, for piano, 11 winds and 7 percussion, I/41Chamber
- Oiseaux Exotiques, pour piano et orchestreOrchestral
- Pièce pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas, I/16Keyboard
- Pièce, for piano and string quartet, I/58Chamber
- Poèmes pour mi, song cycle for soprano and piano, I/17bVocal
- PréludeKeyboard
- Quatuor pour la fin du temps, I/22 — For violin, cello, clarinet and pianoChamber
- Réveil des oiseaux, for piano and orchestra, I/40Orchestral
- Rondeau, I/24Keyboard
- Saint François d'Assise, I/52 — OperaStage
- Theme and Variations for Violin and Piano, I/10Chamber
- Turangalila-symphonie, for orchestraOrchestral
- Turangalîla-symphonie, for piano, ondes martenot and orchestra, I/29Orchestral
- Un Sourire, I/57Orchestral
- Un Vitrail et des oiseaux, for piano, 17 winds, trumpet and 8 percussion, I/55Chamber
- Un Vitrail et des Oiseaux, pour piano et orchestreOrchestral
- Verset pour la Fête de la Dédicace, I/44Keyboard
- Visions de l'Amen, for 2 pianos, I/25Keyboard
- Vocalise-étude, for soprano and piano, I/15Vocal