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[The music of Villa-Lobos] …impressed the young Messiaen who later described Villa-Lobos as ‘a very great orchestrator.’ Beyond that, Paul Griffiths has pointed out that ‘the fast movements of Messiaen’s early works for orchestra, up to and even including the Turangalila-symphonie, taste the same frenzy and vividness’.
— The Harlequin Years: Music in Paris, 1917-1929, Roger Nichols, University of California Press, 2003, p. 257.