Claude Vivier
Country of origin:
Canada
Birthday:
April 14, 1948
Date of death:
March 7, 1983
About Claude Vivier
www.boosey.comBorn April 14th 1948 in Montreal, Claude Vivier studied composition with Gilles Tremblay and piano with Irving Heller at the Conservatory there. He subsequently went to Europe to study composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen and electonic music with Gottfried Michael Koenig and Hals Ulrich Humpert.
He obtained several grants from the Canada Council and was named "Composer of the Year" by the Canadian Music Council in 1981.
The two years of study with Stockhausen revealed a musical personality with a strong predilection for monody and for writing for the voice (solo and choral), but it also began to show the importance Viver was to place on texts and unveiled a style of writing that was to stray to progressively farther from the usual contemporary music trends to become more and more personal and transparent.
In 1977, Claude Vivier undertook a long journey to Asia and the Middle East. This trip hat a significant influence on his writing. The great variety of musical influences he received had the effect, paradoxically, of purifying his own musical expression. Melody gradually occupies a foremost position in his works and his concept of music as being an integral part of daily life is confirmed.
Following a few years of teaching in Montreal, Claude Vivier devoted his time entirely to composition. He was writing a piece prophetically titled "Do you believe in the immortality of the soul", when he died in Paris the 7th of March 1983.
He left some forty works characterized by one of the most personal and expressive styles in the evolution of Canadian music.
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pour soprano, quintette à vent, quintette à cordes, percussion et bandeComposer: Claude VivierMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: ScoreInstrumentation: soprano, wind quintet, string quintet, percussion and tapeLanguage: VocalisesProduct number: BHI 9782In stock€23.50Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping
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arrangement for two or three percussionistsComposer: Claude VivierMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: Performing scoreInstrumentation: percussionProduct number: BHI 10622In stock€23.50Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping
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Composer: Claude VivierMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: ScoreInstrumentation: chamber ensembleProduct number: BHI 9789In stock€22.50Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping
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Composer: Claude VivierMedia Type: Sheet musicInstrumentation: soprano and pianoLanguage: GermanProduct number: BHI 93370In stock€20.50Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping
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Composer: Claude VivierMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: ScoreInstrumentation: soprano and chamber ensembleLanguage: ItalianProduct number: BHI 10623In stock€23.50Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping
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Composer: Claude VivierMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: ScoreInstrumentation: soprano, alto, tenor, bass and ensembleProduct number: BHI 9794In stock€47.00Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping
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Composer: Claude VivierMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: Score and partsInstrumentation: ensembleProduct number: BHI 10617In stock€29.50Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping
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Out of stock€16.00Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping
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Composer: Claude VivierMedia Type: Sheet musicInstrumentation: flute and pianoProduct number: BHI 10618In stock€16.50Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping
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Composer: Claude VivierMedia Type: Sheet musicInstrumentation: violin and clarinetProduct number: BHI 10621Out of stock€22.50Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping
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Composer: Claude VivierMedia Type: Sheet musicInstrumentation: violin and pianoProduct number: BHI 10615In stock€13.00Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping
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Composer: Claude VivierMedia Type: Sheet musicInstrumentation: cello and pianoProduct number: BHI 10616In stock€13.00Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping
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Out of stock€29.50Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping
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for Piano Ensemble (or any other combination of instruments)Composer: Claude VivierMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: Performing scoreSeries: Boosey & Hawkes Archive Edition
Instrumentation: Piano Ensemble (or any other combination of instruments)Product number: BHI 10700In stock€14.50Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping -
Composer: Claude VivierMedia Type: Sheet musicSeries: Boosey & Hawkes Archive Edition
Instrumentation: pianoProduct number: BHI 9721In stock€21.00Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping -
Composer: Claude VivierMedia Type: Sheet musicEdition: ScoreSeries: Boosey & Hawkes Archive Edition
Instrumentation: string orchestraProduct number: BHI 24632In stock€35.50Incl. Tax, Excl. Shipping