| Title: | La Nativité du Seigneur: Neuf méditations |
| English title: | The Nativity of the Lord: Nine Meditations |
| Genre: | organ |
| Composition Date: | 1935, Summer (at Grenoble) |
| Publisher: | Leduc (Paris, 1936). The suite is published in four volumes. The first volume contains Messiaen's preface which describes the work from three points of view: theological, instrumental and compositional. |
| Instrumentation: | organ |
| Duration: | 60 minutes |
| Premiere: | 27 February 1936, La Trinité, Paris (Shared between three players: Daniel_Lesur [1-3], Jean Langlais [4-6], Jean-Jacques Grunenwald [7-9]) |
| Dedication: | (none) |
| Movements: |
- Volume I - La Vierge et l'Enfant [The Virgin and Child]
- Volume I - Les bergers [The Shepherds]
- Volume I - Desseins éternels [Eternal Purposes (or designs)]
- Volume II - Le Verbe [The Word]
- Volume II - Les enfants de Dieu [The Children of God]
- Volume III - Les anges [The Angels]
- Volume III - Jésus accepte la souffrance [Jesus Accepts Suffering]
- Volume III - Les mages [The Magi]
- Volume IV - Dieu parmi nous [God Among Us]
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