Claude Vivier - A Composer's Life

In 1983, French-Canadian composer Claude Vivier was murdered in Paris at the age of thirty-four. Based on unrestricted access to Vivier's personal archives, this book is the first to tell his story.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. "The fact of knowing I had no father or mother"(1948-67)
2. "I want art to be a sacred act, the revelation of forces" (1967-71)
3. "To push my language further" (1971-72)
4. "A need to communicate with the rest of the cosmos" (1972-74)
5. "Something different is coming, something more precise, more clear" (1974-76)
6. "A journey into the depths of myself " (1976-77)
7. "Subtle musics / Filling my soul" (1977-79)
8. "A mystical enchantment" (1978-79)
9. "Oh beautiful child of the light" (1979-81)
10. "The passionate love for music that sometimes stops me from composing" (1981-82)
11. "It's only in thinking about music, and about sound, that I can be happy" (1982-83)
12. "In Quebec people die easily" (1983-)

Appendix 1: Chronology of Compositions
Appendix 2: Selected Discography

Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Bob Gilmore

Summary

In 1983, French-Canadian composer Claude Vivier was murdered in Paris at the age of thirty-four. Based on unrestricted access to Vivier's personal archives, this book is the first to tell his story.

Product details

• Authors: Bob Gilmore
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2014
• EAN: 9781580464857
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-485-7
• No. of pages: 330
• Weight: 714 g
• Illustrations: 25 black & white illustrations
• Series: Eastman Studies in Music; University of Rochester Press; Eastman Studies in Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Englisch, Österreich, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Musiker, Sänger, Bands und Gruppen, Biografien: Kunst und Unterhaltung, Komponisten und Songwriter, Biography & Autobiography / Composers & Musicians, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, für bestimmte nationale oder regionale Lehrpläne, BA - Biography / Autobiography, HISTORY / Canada / General