Messiaen on Debussy and Colour

As a postscript to my recent article on synaesthesia, Extraordinary Splashes of Colour, here’s a video clip of Olivier Messiaen, a fellow synaesthete, talking about colour in Debussy’s Peleas et Melisande, a work he describes as his greatest influence….


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