Catalogue d'oiseaux

Catalogue d'oiseaux is a cycle of solo piano pieces by French composer Olivier Messiaen, composed between 1956 and 1958. The music transcribes and imitates bird song through dense, colouristic piano writing that employs Messiaen's modes of limited transposition and complex rhythmic structures, placing the work as an important exploration of ornithological transcription and landscape impression in his mid-career output.