Messiaen's Forgotten Mie: Rediscovering the organ music of Claire Delbos
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Abstract
While Olivier Messiaen is an increasingly popular figure in music research, the life and works of his first wife Claire Delbos are still shrouded in obscurity.Her compositional career spanned just over 10 years, blossoming alongside yet remaining independent from technical developments in Messiaen's own music.Delbos wrote at least four works for organ, all of which her husband supervised and performed: Deux Pices (H.Hrelle & Cie, 1935), Paraphrase (Lemoine, 1949), Parce, Domine (Rouart-Lerolle, 1952), and L'Offrande Marie (unpublished, 1938-1941).This study-the first devoted solely to her life and music-will define and contextualize Delbos's compositional language.Using these four works as case studies, I outline her unique approaches to melodic construction, harmony, rhythm, counterpoint, and quotation.Newly available material such as correspondence, diaries, and manuscripts will also offer a more complete narrative of her career than previous scholarship.Although these documents shed light on Delbos's compositional process, they also reveal the extent to which Messiaen played a role in it.Copious annotations and revisions for the La Trinit instrument become new perspectives on his organ career during the 1930s and '40s.Through this combination of musical analysis and archival research, I untangle the story behind Messiaen's forgotten "Mie," an artist who lived and collaborated with one of the twentieth century's most influential composers.kindling my passion for French music but recommending Claire Delbos as a potential research topic.While my studies at Oberlin College prepared me for the musical and
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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