| Title: | Harawi |
| English title: | Love-song. |
| Genre: | vocal |
| Composition Date: | 1945, 15 June - 15 September (Petichet) |
| Publisher: | Leduc (Paris, 1949) |
| Instrumentation: | dramatic soprano, piano |
| Duration: | 60 minutes |
| Premiere: | 26 June 1946, Paris, 2 rue Duroc (chez le Comte Etienne de Beaumont), Marcelle Bunlet, soprano and Olivier Messiaen, piano (audition privée); 27 June 1946, Brussels, Bunlet, Messiaen; 20 January 1947, Mâcon, Salle des Fêtes, Bunlet, Messiaen. |
| Dedication: | Unknown. |
| Movements: |
- La ville qui dormait, toi [You, town that sleeps]
- Bonjour toi, colombe verte
- Montagnes [Mountains]
- Doundou tchil
- L'amour de Piroutcha
- Répétition planétaire [The Cycles of the Planets]
- Adieu [Goodbye]
- Syllables [Syllables]
- L'escalier redit [The Repeating Stairs/The Endless Stairs]
- Amour oiseau d'étoile[A Bird's Love of the Stars]
- Katchikatchi les étoiles
- Dans le noir [In the Black]
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| Notes: |
- The title, Harawi, is from Quechua, a Native American language of South America.
- The first piece in Messiaen's "Tristan trilogy", preceding Turangalîla-Symphonie and Cinq rechants.
- Includes a melody and harmonization originally drawn from organ music that Messiaen improvised for a production of Lucien Fabre's play Tristan et Yseult.
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