| Title: | Catalogue d'Oiseaux |
| English title: | Catalogue of Birds |
| Genre: | piano |
| Composition Date: | 1956, October - 1958, 1 September |
| Publisher: | Leduc (Paris, 1964) |
| Instrumentation: | piano |
| Duration: | 165 minutes: 1 - 13 minutes, 2 - 9 minutes, 3 - 13 minutes, 4 - 16 minutes, 5 - 8 minutes, 6 - 9 minutes, 7 - 30 minutes, 8 - 5 minutes, 9 - 11 minutes, 10 - 19 minutes, 11 - 9 minutes, 12 - 8 minutes, 13 - 11 minutes |
| Premiere: | 15 April 1959, Salle Gaveau, Paris (Yvonne Loriod, piano) |
| Dedication: | "à ses modèles ailés, à pianiste Yvonne Loriod" (to its winged models, to pianist Yvonne Loriod) |
| Movements: |
- Book I: 1 - Le Chocard des Alpes [The Alpine Chough - Coracia gradulus]
- Book I: 2 - Le Loriot [The Golden Oriole - Oriolus oriolus]
- Book I: 3 - Le Merle bleu [The Blue Rock Thrush - Monticola solitarius]
- Book II: 4 - Le Traquet Stapazin [The Black-eared Wheater - Oenanthe hispanica]
- Book III: 5 - La Chouette Hulotte [The Tawny Owl - Strix aluco]
- Book III: 6 - L'Alouette-Lulu [The Woodlark - Lullula arborea]
- Book IV: 7 - La Rousserole Effarvatte [The Reed Warbler - Acrocephalus scirpaceus]
- Book V: 8 - L'Alouette Calandrelle [The Short-toed Lark - Calendrella brachydactyla]
- Book V: 9 - La Bouscarle [Cetti's Warbler - Cettia cetti]
- Book VI: 10 - Le Merle de roche [The Rock Thrush - Montico la saxabilis]
- Book VII: 11 - La Buse variable [The Buzzard - Buleo buleo]
- Book VII: 12 - Le Traquet rieur [The Black Wheatear - Oenanthe leucura]
- Book VII: 13 - Le Courlis cendré [The Curlew - Numenius arquata]
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| Notes: |
- All of the birds in Catalogue d'Oiseaux are European in origin.
- The 1959 manuscript contains no pedal markings and only general directions for tempo.
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