| Title: | Les Corps glorieux: Sept visions brèves de la vie des ressuscités |
| English title: | The Glorious Bodies: Seven Brief Visions of the Life of the Resurrected |
| Genre: | organ |
| Composition Date: | 1939 (Completed 25 August 1939) |
| Publisher: | Leduc (Paris, 1942) |
| Instrumentation: | organ |
| Duration: | 50 minutes |
| Premiere: | 15 November 1943, Palais de Chaillot, Paris (Olivier Messiaen, organ) |
| Dedication: | Unknown. |
| Movements: |
- Volume I - Subtilité des corps glorieux [The REfinement of the Glorious Bodies ]
- Volume I - Les eaux de la grâce [The Waters of Grace ]
- Volume I - L'ange aux parfums [The Angel Surrounded by Perfumes]
- Volume II - Combat de la mort et de la vie [Battle between Life and Death]
- Volume II - Force et agilité des corps glorieux [The Strength and Agility of the Glorious Bodies]
- Volume II - Joie et clarté des corps Glorieux [The Joy and Revelation/Enlightenment of the Glorious Bodies]
- Volume II - Le mystère de la Sainte Trinité [The Mystery of the Holy Trinity]
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| Notes: |
- Les Corps glorieux was performed privately by Messiaen for his students on 22 July 1941 at La Trinité.
- Mvts. 4 and 6 were publically premiered by Messiaen on 28 December 1941 in an organ recital at the Palais de Chaillot.
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