Claude Vivier

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Claude Vivier (14 April 1948 - 7 March 1983) was a Canadian composer. Born to unknown parents in Montréal, Vivier was adopted at the age of three, by a poor French-Canadian family. From the age of thirteen he attended boarding schools run by the Marist Brothers, a religious order that prepared young boys for a vocation in the priesthood. The young Vivier's religious inclinations were supplanted by a love of modern poetry and music. Upon being asked to leave the novitiate at the age of eighteen, he enrolled the following year at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal, where his main teacher was the composer Gilles Tremblay. His earliest works date from this period. In 1971 he began a period of three years' study in Europe, first at the Institute for Sonology in Utrecht, and then in Cologne with Karlheinz Stockhausen. Vivier learned much from Stockhausen, and his early works have aspects that are clearly, and sometimes audibly, derivative of his teacher, even though his later works bear little audible resemblance.[3] In 1974 he returned to Montreal and began to establish his reputation. Early works like Lettura di Dante were performed with some success at the concerts of the SMCQ. In autumn 1976 he undertook a long trip to the East, notably to Japan and Bali; the music he encountered there made a profound effect on him. Subsequent compositions like Pulau Dewata show the impact quite audibly; but in later works the influence has been digested and goes much deeper.[citation n

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albums

Vivier: Lonely Child; Prologue pour un Marco Polo; Bouchara; Zipangu

Orion

Claude Vivier: Orchestral Works

Claude Vivier: Orion, Siddhartha & 5 Chansons for Percussion

Vivier: Bouchara / Greeting Music / Wo Bist Du Licht!

Vivier: Chamber Music & Music for Piano Solo

lonely child

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Into Light

Montreal Postmoderne

Anthology Of Canadian Music

Zipangu

Vivier: Jesus erbarme dich / Journal (Live 2018)

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