Final resting place for Messiaen’s papers
mainThe national library of France has taken possession of the documentary estate of Olivier Messiaen and his wife Yvonne Loriod.
The archive – almost 250 metres of manuscript scores, letters, books, photographs, recordings and concert programmes – will be house in Paris at the BibNat.
The couple’s house at Petichet, beside the lac de Laffrey in Isère, will open later this year as an artists’ rest home.
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