Music-lovers enamoured with the works of Olivier Messiaen might find French property allows them to embark on a pilgrimage like the ones the composer himself used to take.

Each year, the self-titled Mountain Frenchman would head to La Grave to compose, inspired by the birdsong, their sweeping flight, the colours of the sun as it rose and set, and the contours of the mountain landscape itself.

The French Government Tourist Office quotes him as saying of 1965’s Et Expecto Ressurectionem Mortuorum: "I wanted it performed outside in the High Mountains of La Grave, facing La Meije’s glacier, in these powerful and solemn landscapes that I have considered my real home."

People moving to French property in the mountainous region could make Messiaen’s dreams come true – along with their own – by playing his piece in adulation of the Alps.

The tourism body adds that the village of La Grave itself seems to reflect the mountains around it, with a lofty church spire that rivals the surrounding peaks.

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