Bob Gilmore

Claude Vivier (eBook, ePUB)

A Composer's Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781580468428
• Artikelnr.: 56407479

Autorenporträt

Bob Gilmore

Inhaltsangabe

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