Claude Vivier : a composer's life / Bob Gilmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilmore, Bob, 1961-2015, author.

Series:

Eastman studies in music ; v. 108.

Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989 ; v. 109

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vivier, Claude, 1948-1983.

Vivier, Claude.

Composers--Canada--Biography.

Composers.

Canada.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 295 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, New York ; Woodbridge, England : University of Rochester Press, 2014.

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 tells his story.

Contents:

"The fact of knowing I had no father or mother" : 1948-67

"I want art to be a sacred act, the revelation of forces" : 1967-71)

"To push my language further" : 1971-72

"A need to communicate with the rest of the cosmos" : 1972-74

"Something different is coming, something more precise, more clear" : 1974-76

"A journey into the depths of myself" : 1976-77

"Subtle musics / filling my soul" : 1977-79

"A mystical enchantment" : 1978-79

"Oh beautiful child of the light" : 1979-81

"The passionate love for music that sometimes stops me from composing" : 1981-82

"It's only in thinking about music, and about sound, that I can be happy" : 1982-83

"In Quebec people die easily : 1983.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.

ISBN:

9781580464857

1580464858

OCLC:

858896185