It will have been enough to leave the departmental 1091, which winds from the Col du Lautaret, then to engage on the ramp of Laffrey to realize the obvious: the mountain tropism of Messiaen is not explained only in La Grave , the beating heart of the festival which has been devoted to it for a quarter of a century.
It must also be read in the light of the landscapes of Matheysine.
There was his house, in Saint-Théoffrey, transformed into an artists' residence.
It was there, between the lakes of Laffrey and Pétichet, between Belledonne and Queyras, that he recharged his batteries every summer.
For more than fifty years.
There was born most of his work, stamped with the seal of family intimacy.
Where he had chosen to be buried.
At the foot of the small church of Saint-Théoffrey, where, according to legend, he came to play the harmonium.
His white marble stele in the shape of a bird, adorned with a measure of his song of love and death
Harawi
, spreads its wings there with the serenity of an egret.
Clear as a Bach chorale...
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