Claude Vivier A Composer's Life

Name: Claude Vivier A Composer's Life
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ISBN: 9781580468428

ISBN-10: 158046842X

ISBN-13: 9781580468428

Edition: 2014

Authors: Bob Gilmore

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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…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Publication date: 6/1/2014
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 330
Language: English