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Claude Vivier (14 April 1948 - 7 March 1983) was a Canadian composer.
Born to unknown parents in Montreal, 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.
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  • Jhaidinszaev

    i love how "godhatesfags" is a top listener

    22 Dec 2012 Reply

  • Taxes

    starting to like the piano works more and more

    19 Dec 2011 Reply

  • inhocvince

    great music composer, just wrong planet. Highly recommended!

    16 Nov 2011 Reply

  • progtrance7

    Another dead but cool dude

    25 Oct 2011 Reply

  • ut0

    Him being French-Canadian has as little to do with his music as him being gay, so why aren't below users complaining about him being tagged 'french' and 'canadian' as well? It's just a question.

    5 Oct 2011 Reply

  • insomniacme

    wow just realized his early death, real shame :(

    13 Jun 2010 Reply

  • insomniacme

    ti dum

    28 Apr 2010 Reply

  • DrCaligari

    and what connection is there between his orientation and his music? you could as well tag him "glass wearing".

    20 Nov 2008 Reply

  • wolfpupjon

    http://www.boosey.com/pages/cr/composer/composer_main.asp?composerid=18226&ttype=BIOGRAPHY&ttitle=Biography Seems he was always frank about his sexuality. Don't see the problem with the 'gay' tag. It is just unfortunate that other Last.fm users are using the 'gay' tag in a derogatory manner. I'm pretty certain that any out gay artist working in the 70s and (early) 80s would be proud of a 'gay' tag - just not so impressed by the homophobic overtones of the more recent youth implementation of the term.

    19 Jul 2008 Reply

  • Glukoz

    yay the 'gay' tag is gone!

    30 Mar 2008 Reply

  • Glukoz

    God I can't believe you tagged him like that..

    10 May 2007 Reply

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