Can I read Claude Vivier: A Composer's Life (Eastman Studies in Music, 109) on EtoBox?

Claude Vivier: A Composer's Life (Eastman Studies in Music, 109) by BOB GILMORE is a music available to read on EtoBox.

What is Claude Vivier: A Composer's Life (Eastman Studies in Music, 109) about?

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 f

Who reads Claude Vivier: A Composer's Life (Eastman Studies in Music, 109)?

Author

BOB GILMORE

Publisher

University of Rochester Press, Boydell & Brewer

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781580464857

Category

music

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13