Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus

Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus is a piano cycle by French composer Olivier Messiaen, composed in 1944. The work is a large-scale, meditative set of pieces that combines modal harmonies, complex rhythmic structures, dense chordal textures and Messiaen's characteristic use of birdsong and religious imagery, and it occupies a central position in his post-war output and in the development of mid-20th-century piano repertoire.