Olivier Messiaen
Archive Footage of Messiaen on Debussy
Subtitled in English, listen to Messiaen first-hand.
In this archive footage of one of his analysis classes at the Paris Conservatoire, the composer Olivier Messiaen apologises for his ‘composer’s voice’. Messiaen is talking about and playing excerpts from Debussy’s Pelleas et Melisande.
