List of compositions by Olivier Messiaen

Works are listed initially by genre and can be sorted chronologically by clicking on the "Date" header.

Messiaen's compositions include works for chamber ensemble, orchestra, vocal music, music for piano and organ, as well as some of the earliest electronic music, with his use of the ondes Martenot in several of his compositions.

Messiaen's work is characterised by rhythmic complexity, his interest in ornithology and birdcalls, and his system of modes of limited transposition.

("Turangalîla Symphony") premiere 1949 premiere 1956 ms in piano score, complete but without orchestration, ms discarded and music rewritten as Sept haïkaï after the composer's visit to Japan; ms reconstructed and edited as a solo piano piece as Fauvettes de l'Hérault – Concert des garrigues ("Warblers of Herault – Garrigues Concerto") by Roger Muraro, and first performed by him in Tokyo June 2017[4] 5th mvt (a five-voice fugue) never written and portions of orchestration not completed due to the composer's declining health; 2nd half of 1st mvt and all of 4th mvt orchestrated by Yvonne Loriod, George Benjamin, and Heinz Holliger, premiered in 1994, published in 2003 (Mass) unpublished, ("Fantasia") ("Piece") unpublished; arr.

for soprano and piano as 5th mvt of Harawi unpublished; revised and expanded as 6th mvt of Des canyons aux étoiles... unpublished; later used in the 7th mvt of Éclairs sur l'au-delà unpublished, but recorded by Yvonne Loriod and Guy Deplus in 1999 ("Prelude") published 2001 used as the thème d'amour in Harawi and Turangalîla (transposed) transcribed in 2022 ("Burlesque Fantasia") Book 1: Book 2: Book 3: Book 4: Book 5: Book 6: Book 7: discovered in 2012 by Peter Hill, edited for performance by Hill, and premiered by him in November 2013[11] ("Prelude") published 2003 unpublished (Timestamps)musique concrète published along with two other fugues that won the first prize that year