Read about Olivier Messiaen in Wikipedia.

Here is the Olivier Messiaen Page.

The Boston University Olivier Messiaen Website claims to be the most comprehensive source of information on Olivier Messiaen.

Click to listen to an hour-and-a-half-long programme of Messiaen's organ music on Pipedreams: Attuned to Messiaen.

Click for music Olivier Messiaen created for different liturgical seasons: Christmas, Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday.

Olivier Messiaen, Le Quatuor pour la fin du temps (The Quartet for the End of Time) was composed while Messiaen was interned in a German prison camp, Stalag VIII.  The first performance was for hundreds of his fellow prisoners. 

Click for Messiaen’s own programme notes. 

Click to read about it and listen to two versions, by Tashi and by Luna Nova New Music Ensemble.

Messiaen composed Les Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine following the liberation of Paris towards the end of World War II. 

Click to read brief programme notes about Les Trois petites liturgies and listen to two versions, one performed last month at the Bath Festival, the second by the Ensemble de Grenoble with Messiaen's second wife, Yvonne Loriod, at the piano and his sister-in-law, Jeanne Loriod, playing the ondes Martenot.

Hear and see Pierre Boulez conduct Messian's Oiseaux exotiques with Pierre-Laurent Aimard at the piano, Part one and Part two.

Click (Part one, two, three, four, five, six, part seven missing, eight) to hear and see Sir Simon Rattle conduct the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in Messiaen's Éclairs sur l'au dela (Flashes of the Beyond).

Click to hear Marie Rubris Bauer on the 2003 Pasi organ of St. Cecilia's Cathedral, Omaha, Nebraska perform Olivier Messiaen, L'Apparition de l'église éternelle.  Then click Listen to Program. Then click and hold button sliding it to 18:20 (18 minutes and 20 seconds).