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Claude Vivier - A Composer's Life (Hardcover)
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Claude Vivier - A Composer's Life (Hardcover)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
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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. Claude Vivier's haunting and expressive music has captivated
audiences around the world. But the French-Canadian composer is
remembered also because of the dramatic circumstances of his death:
he was found murdered in his Paris apartment at the age of
thirty-four. Given unrestricted access to Vivier's archives and
interviews with Vivier's family, teachers, friends, and colleagues,
musicologist and biographer Bob Gilmore tells here the full story
of Vivier's fascinating life, from his abandonment as a child in a
Montreal orphanage to his posthumous acclaim as one of the leading
composers of his generation. Expelled from a religious school at
seventeen for "lack of maturity," Vivier gave up his ambition to
join the priesthood to study composition. Between 1976 and 1983
Vivier wrote the works on which his reputation rests, including
Lonely Child, Bouchara, and the operas Kopernikus and Marco Polo.
He was also an outspoken presence in the Montreal arts world and
gay scene. Vivier left Quebec for Paris in 1982 to work on a new
opera, the composition of which was interrupted by his murder. On
his desk wasthe manuscript of his last work, uncannily entitled "Do
You Believe in the Immortality of the Soul." Vivier's is a tragic
but life-affirming story, intimately connected to his passionate
music. Bob Gilmore was a notedmusicologist and performer who taught
at Brunel University in London. He wrote or edited five previous
books, including Harry Partch: A Biography.
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