Livre d'Orgue (1951) - and excerpt(s) from

Composed in 1951 and first performed by Messiaen in Stuttgart in 1952.

There are seven movements:

1.  Reprises par interversions

2.  Pièce en trio
     "For now we see through a glass darkly" (I Corinthians, xiii, 12)

3.  Les Mains de l'abîme
     "The deep uttered his voice and lifted his hands on high" (Habbakuk, iii, 10)

4.  Chants d'oiseaux

5.  Pièce en trio
     "For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things" (Romans XL, 36)

6.  Les yeux dans les roues
     "And their rings were full of eyes round about them four: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels" (Ezekiel, i, 18, 20)

7.  Soixante-Quatre Durées