This well-researched book is wonderfully written with great clarity and organization, and provides a remarkable and original perspective on the work of the great French composer.- Christopher E. Mehrens (Music Reference Services Quarterly) This volume fulfills Benitez's 'hope that it will serve as an intellectual springboard into the mind of one of the most creative musicians of the twentieth century and Messiaen's self-described 'synthesis of all that he had done up to that point in his career as a composer', the opera Saint François d'Assise."- Melissa Cummins - Sam Houston State University (MLA NOTES)
