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The 14 pages that link to Olivier Messiaen, each with the reason it gives.

• SerialismRelated: His early use of serial-like organization helped inspire total serialism.

• Claude DebussyRelated: Messiaen extended Debussy’s use of nontraditional scales and coloristic harmony.

• Prix de RomeRelated: His 1930 award places him among the prize’s notable twentieth-century music laureates.

• Karlheinz StockhausenRelated: Stockhausen studied with Messiaen in Paris in 1952.

• Pierre BoulezRelated: Messiaen taught Boulez at the Paris Conservatoire and encouraged his early experiments.

• Anton WebernRelated: Messiaen taught at Darmstadt, where his students encountered Webern as a modernist precedent.

• IsorhythmRelated: His rhythmic thinking offers a modern point of comparison with recurring, nonstandard pattern structures.

• Musical modernismRelated: His distinctive synthesis widened modernism beyond the paths associated with Schoenberg and Stravinsky.

• Simon RattleRelated: Rattle’s advocacy helped bring Messiaen’s large-scale works to wider audiences.

• Darmstadt Summer CoursesRelated: Messiaen’s courses at Darmstadt helped introduce younger composers to new approaches to rhythm and pitch.

• Alexander ScriabinRelated: Messiaen developed an independent musical language that also connects pitch with color and spirituality.

• Iannis XenakisRelated: Messiaen encouraged Xenakis to draw on his mathematical and architectural background in composition.

• 20th-century classical musicRelated: His individual language linked spiritual aims with new approaches to rhythm and color.