Claude Vivier
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Claude Vivier (French:
Despite working at a slow pace and leaving behind a small oeuvre, Vivier's musical language is vast and diverse. His place in the spectral movement of Europe allowed for manipulations of the
Vivier lived as an
Early life
Childhood
Claude Vivier is believed to have been born on 14 April 1948 in the vicinity of
Vivier would posit in later years, however, that he was likely not of French Canadian heritage.[12] He would often mythicize the story and heritage of his parents, at times telling people his family was German, Eastern European, Jewish, etc.[13][14] His friend Philippe Poloni would relay, "he thought that his father was a conductor, or his mother was a musician, and they met in Montréal. Or something like that, something very romantic. He always said he spoke good German and good Italian because he had a natural connection with those two languages as he had some Italian and some Jewish German blood in his veins."[14] He searched his whole life in the hope of finding his birth parents, to no avail.[4][15] This frustration and the feeling of a hollow identity inspired many of his works, including Lonely Child (1980).[13][16][17][18]
After receiving the young boy, he was given the name of "Claude Roger" by the Sœurs Grises who ran the orphanage, and subsequently baptised at the Église Saint-Enfant-Jésus.[7][19] He was considered a mentally disabled child, as the nuns believed him to be "deaf and dumb".[12][20] Apart from this, however, very little is known from his early life in the orphanage due to a lack of record-keeping; any learning disability that he may have had, went undiagnosed.[20]
He was adopted at the age of two-and-a-half by the
At the age of eight, Vivier was raped by his adoptive uncle, Joseph.[21][29][30] He revealed this to a priest during a routine confession, and the priest reportedly told the young Claude that he would not be forgiven unless he told his parents.[29] Vivier's parents became infuriated after he eventually recalled the sexual assault, believing he was either lying or responsible for the whole ordeal.[21][31] This caused a significant strain in their relationship, and Vivier would ultimately spend less and less time interacting with his family[32] – Joseph's sexual abuse continued for years after.[33] The family moved north to the suburb of Laval when Vivier was nine or ten, and frequently migrated from house to house as they continued to struggle financially.[33] These near-constant moves depressed Vivier as he became evermore lonely, "I remember when I was a child and we moved house – I went around the streets looking for friends, but came back to the house with my head down, still with no friends."[34]
Adolescence
We lived two streets away from [Claude]. I remember we heard him singing very loudly when he passed by on the pavement in front of our house. I was in service at Mass with him. Young people made fun of him because he was so out of the ordinary. He already had effeminate manners, laughed loudly and behaved strangely. But he was unreachable. Nothing seemed to affect him. Even when people were making fun of him he just started over again the following day. You would notice him. He wasn't the type to pass by unnoticed.
—Unidentified
At the age of thirteen, Vivier's parents enrolled him in boarding schools run by the Frères Maristae, a French Catholic organisation that prepared young men for a vocation in the priesthood.[33] Vivier recalled poetry being his favourite course, being especially fascinated with the works of Arthur Rimbaud and Émile Nelligan.[36] He also developed a strong interest in linguistics and historical literature, studying the mechanics of ancient Greek and Latin, which would later prove influential for his langue inventées.[21] His relatively high grades let him rise to the ranks of church postulant, and he began to develop a group of friends with similar interests.[31][37] His grades were ranked the highest in a class of thirty-four at the Juvénat Supérieur Saint-Joseph, with a two-year average exam mark of eighty percent.[38] Vivier's first documented poems, including Noël and the dada-inspired Not' petit bonheur (1965), date from this period.[28][39][40]
Vivier discovered he was gay while attending classes and experiencing what he called "
First musical education
Vivier's first exposure to music was singing
Despite being a devout Catholic himself, Vivier eventually decided an expected career in the church would be impossible given his prior expulsion;[21][44][54] he worked various odd jobs to stay financially afloat after leaving the novitiate, with positions at a hardware store, an Eaton's, and a restaurant in the Laval area.[35] In the fall of 1967, he was finally able to enroll at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal (CMQM).[37]
He studied piano with Irving Heller,
He began his first known romantic relationship in Montreal with a man named Dino Olivieri. A postcard from this period dedicated to Olivieri reads, "Perhaps, I love you very much..."[67]
Career
Studies in Europe
In 1971, following studies with Gilles Tremblay, Vivier studied for three years in Europe, first with
Vivier was strongly influenced by Stockhausen, and would often revere the composer as the greatest in music history.[c][9][16] Stockhausen, however, did not initially think much of the enthusiastic Vivier.[10][19] Toop once stated, "paradoxically, Stockhausen never seemed to take Claude as seriously as he took most of the other students."[77] This did not deter Vivier, however, "Claude was by far Stockhausen's most loyal adherent in the class (in fact, I think of loyalty as one of Claude's key characteristics), and the only one to share Stockhausen's spiritual outlook to any significant degree."[73][78] He also had a reputation among his classmates, often being teased and ridiculed for his disheveled, eccentric appearance and overt flamboyancy.[77] In spite of this, Vivier did develop amicable relationships with some of his peers, including Gérard Grisey, fellow Québécois Walter Boudreau, and Horațiu Rădulescu.[79] Vivier would end up performing as a percussionist in a Darmstadt production of Rădulescu's piece Flood for the Eternal's Origins (1970), described by the composer as being written for "global sound sources".[79]
His early works have aspects that are derivative of his teacher, including radical approaches to serialism and the twelve-tone technique.[80] Vivier differed from his teacher and contemporaries like Pierre Boulez, however, by continuing to use melody as the driving force of his compositions.[81][82] He had also begun composing experimental electroacoustic music inspired by his first semester in Utrecht, all of which for tape.[19][62] The first piece he wrote while under Stockhausen's tutelage was Chants (1973) for seven female voices, which he would describe as, "the first moment of my existence as a composer".[83][84] Vivier became familiar with a precedent to the type of approach he would adopt in future compositions – the use of ring modulation.[85] Stockhausen's Mantra (1970) for two pianos and electronics relates most strongly to Vivier's musical occupations.[56][86][87]
Style shift
Between 1972 and 1973, Vivier dramatically shifted his musical language.
Return to Canada
In 1974, Vivier returned to Montreal to begin establishing a career as a
He took up other professorial and pedagogical jobs during this time, including at the Collège Montmorency in Laval, the Université de Montréal, and the University of Ottawa.[102] The composer would tell an interviewer that he was "not liked" at Montmorency, and was described by a peer to be "a catastrophe" of a teacher.[103] Vivier's time at the University of Ottawa was considerably more rewarding; In 1975 he was placed in charge of the university's foremost contemporary ensemble, Atelier de musique contemporaine.[103] His teaching contract lasted for the seven months from October 1975 to April 1976, and was paid hourly at a rate of approximately $20. He would frequently commute by bus from his apartment in Montreal to the music department in Ottawa.[104]
Ethnomusicological journeys
From late 1976 to early 1977, Vivier spent some time travelling to
He visitied
Bali was where he spent the most time, meticulously analyzing the traditional gamelan of the region, and attempting to learn their native language.[19][59][108][119] Vivier kept an incredibly detailed notebook where he wrote everything he had learned from local villagers, including an anatomical chart with various body parts labelled in Balinese.[113][120] He described his Bali trip as, "a lesson in love, in tenderness, in poetry and in respect for life".[8] Ensemble pieces Pulau Dewata (1977) and Paramirabo (1978) are both directly influenced by the Balinese gamelan, with a modified form of kotekan (a method of rhythmic alternation akin to the European hocket) being used between two atonal melodies.[108][121][122][123]
Vivier concluded his journey in
Burgeoning career
Working with Québécois pianist
He briefly travelled to Europe in November of the same year to confer with the French spectral composers
The Canadian Music Centre, of which he had been a member, named him "Composer of the Year" in 1981, for continuously endorsing and contributing to the contemporary musical language of Canada.[145][146][147][148]
Later life and death
Final move
In June 1982, Vivier decided to temporarily relocate to Paris, believing he had exhausted all the orchestras and ensembles he could possibly be commissioned from in Canada.[149][150] He left most of his possessions behind and lived in a small apartment on rue du Général-Guilhem in Paris's eleventh arrondissement, in the northeastern corridor of the city.[151] Despite troubled financial circumstances, Vivier was confident and pleased to be in the city; spending the majority of his days composing, first working on Trois airs pour un opéra imaginaire (1982).[152][153][154] A few months later, he began a short but passionate relationship with an American author and expatriate Christopher Coe. The relationship ended on 24 January 1983, when Vivier found out Coe had another boyfriend in New York City. It was one of Vivier's only serious relationships.[10] Coe would later write a novel depicting a fictionalised account of their love affair, entitled Such Times.[155]
First attack
On the evening of 25 January, the day after severing his relationship with Coe, Vivier picked up an unknown man at a Parisian gay bar and brought him back to his apartment for sexual favours. Before anything was to happen, the man suddenly "grew violent" and attacked Vivier with a pair of scissors, slashing his face and neck, resulting in many superficial wounds.[156][157] Before the assailant made off with the contents of Vivier's wallet, he cut the composer's phone line with the same scissors.[158] Vivier rushed to his friend, Philippe Poloni, who was staying in an apartment complex not far from his. He recalled in a letter sent the morning after, "Philippe has been marvelous with me – I cried in his arms – he was incredibly tender with me – we talked a little, he looked after me and he also took care of this wound in my being which touched my soul to its depths."[158] Poloni helped recompose Vivier, but warned him of the many truqueurs in the area who could trick him into being robbed again.
The incident profoundly affected Vivier and made him significantly more paranoid and self-conscious,[159] "I'm afraid, afraid of myself, I'm afraid of failing in my task – I'm so stupid, so weak, so incapable of living my creative solitude fully and that is what I have to force myself to do."[160] Despite this, however, he continued to peruse other gay bars in the area, to the frustration and worry of friends who feared another attack would happen.[161]
Death
On the evening of Monday, 7 March 1983, Vivier was drinking at a different bar in the Belleville neighbourhood and invited a young man, twenty-year-old Pascal Dolzan, to spend the night at his place.[6][10][162][163] The circumstances of what exactly happened that night and early the following morning are still under speculation, but Dolzan would later relay that he only accepted Vivier's invitation with the intention of robbing and killing him.[4][17][164] The exact time in which he did so is unknown.[2][165]
On Tuesday, Vivier was scheduled to give a midday lecture with Belgian musicologist Harry Halbreich on the music of Quebec, at the Conservatoire de Paris.[164] After not showing up, Halbreich immediately suspected something to be wrong, "I became worried very quickly, because by nature he was absolutely punctual and precise about work-related matters. I called his place all afternoon but there was no reply, and in the evening, when I gave the talk, alone, alas, I knew something serious had happened." Vivier was known to lock himself away for weeks at a time when working on music, but he had never missed any of his scheduled meetings without informing anyone prior. Halbreich contacted his sister Janine Halbreich-Euvrard, who was residing close to Vivier's place, to check on him. She found his apartment door locked, and received no response when knocking repeatedly. Halbreich relates, "I had to leave for Brussels, and I asked my sister to inform the police. That Saturday my sister telephoned me, in tears, and told me that they had found him."[164]
Vivier's body was discovered after Paris police entered his ransacked apartment on Saturday, 12 March, and noticed blood pooled beneath and beside his bed.[10][166] He was found stuffed between two mattresses, having been beaten, strangled, suffocated, and stabbed with a large dagger at least forty-five times, rendering him nearly unrecognizable.[h][69][115][167][168] He was stabbed with such force that the dagger penetrated the mattress in several areas and left blood spatter on the walls and ceiling.[166] First responders initially suspected two or more men to be responsible, given the extended state of havoc Vivier's body and home had been left in.[1]
Dolzan was considered the prime suspect, and was arrested nearly eight months later on 26 October, at a pub in Place de Clichy.[10][147][169] He confessed to Vivier's murder, stating he strangled the composer with a dog collar and jammed a white handkerchief in his mouth to silence his screams.[i][171] The only thing Dolzan ended up taking before leaving and locking the apartment door were a few thousand francs he found in Vivier's wallet.[169] It was eventually discovered by the police that Dolzan was a homeless serial criminal who had assaulted other gay men in Paris prior to Vivier's murder.[172] His modus operandi was to enter gay bars – despite not being gay himself – and seduce men with the intent of stealing their valuables and maliciously harming them, similar to other truqueurs who committed their crimes in Paris. Dolzan is confirmed to have assaulted several men and killed two others in this way, mostly in the area encompassing The Marais (currently home to France's largest gay village).[147][173] The true number of victims is possibly higher.[169]
During Dolzan's subsequent trial, the court came to the conclusion that Vivier and his other victims were robbed, assaulted and murdered as the result of a series of drug-fueled hate crimes. He was charged for and found guilty of all three confirmed killings by Paris's cour d'assises and given the maximum possible sentence of life imprisonment in November 1986.[171][174][175] Dolzan was later transferred from the Penitentiary Centre in southern Lannemezan to a higher security prison in 1991, after engaging in a series of violent protests within the penitentiary.[176]
Funeral and reactions
As Vivier left behind no will, it was ultimately decided by Paris authorities to cremate his remains on 23 March 1983, as his body had been too bludgeoned and decomposed for morgue workers to embalm him. He was cremated at the Père Lachaise Crematorium, and his ashes were transported to Montreal for burial. A small ceremony was held in Paris on the same day, with his remains being substituted by a small wooden box in an improvised casket.[177] Many of his friends and musical contemporaries were in attendance, including Grisey and Murail.[177]
A proper funeral was held in Église Saint-Albert-le-Grand de Montréal on 14 April, what would have been Vivier's thirty-fifth birthday.[163] The music performed there included the psalm setting from Ojikawa (1968), one of the earliest works in his catalogue. His ashes were placed in Laval's Salon Funéraire Dallaire. An official memorial concert followed on 2 June in the auditorium of Salle Claude Champagne, with performances of pieces including Prolifération (1969), Pianoforte (1975), Shiraz (1977) and Lonely Child (1980).[163]
As news of his death spread throughout France and his native Québec, many of Vivier's colleagues and former teachers were shocked. Gilles Tremblay would say he was, "completely surprised" and, "... when he died we were very sad. But in a certain way I was furious. I was furious against him. You know, you don't have the right, when you have such talent, to be so stupid!"[161][171] Some would question if he had any motive or incentive to have himself killed, especially as the composer was chronically depressed and known to have a fascination with death. Harry Halbreich would say after Vivier was attacked in January, "... we begged him to move, but he ignored these warnings, driven by who knows what horrible fascination with the darkness that he was so afraid of".[161] Vivier's close friends Thérèse Desjardins and José Evangelista, conductor Vladimir Jurowski and others would suggest he had intentionally arranged his own death.[68][167][178] There is no concrete evidence to suggest this, however.[179]
Personal life
Overview
Vivier was best known among his friends and acquaintances for his
Especially as his career was beginning, Vivier was recalled by many to have had incredibly poor hygiene. He was noted for wearing the same shearling coat nearly every day of his adult life, and growing out his greasy, long and unkempt hair.[181] One acquaintance recalled how horrible and sheep-like he smelled, much to the bother of his classmates and teachers, including Stockhausen.[18][71][183]
Vivier had various anxiety disorders and extreme
Sexuality and identity
Vivier was openly gay, and many of his compositions – as well as poems written in his teenage years – reflect progressive and homosexual themes.[187][188] He would comment on, "all the extreme feminist thought, ultimately, that I have. A sensitivity that I have, very feminist, or gay, or, finally, a thinking that goes a little beyond the usual modes that are male/female, dominating/dominated, ... I stay very intimate, my music is very intimate."[189] In the last few months of his life, he had begun working on an opera entitled Tchaïkovski, un réquiem Russe, which would have advanced the theory that famous romantic composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was ordered to commit suicide upon the revelation of his sexual preferences.[187] He announced the project to UNESCO music organisations and consulted Harry Halbreich for help with the libretto, but very little was completed in manuscript form and the opera was never staged.[145][188][190]
Friends and subsequent historians would comment on how Vivier led a somewhat
It is believed that Vivier was a carrier of the
Ethnicity
Despite having no evidence to suggest Vivier was ethnically Jewish, he would maintain throughout his life that he was
Music
Overview
When you listen to Vivier's late music, at first it sounds somewhat minimal, simple, naive; he seems to be a kind of minimalist, ... but compared to the Russians and the Baltic composers of that generation, Vivier uses much more complex harmonies. ... He had a very complicated system of natural harmonics and various rules for making choices – his compositional system was very sophisticated and difficult to understand. However, I believe that not harmony, but ritual is a hidden force in the music. ... His music is very difficult to perform very well.
—Louis Andriessen, 2002[202]
Vivier is believed to have only forty-eight surviving compositions completed before his death. They vary in ensemble from choral works, chamber pieces, experimental tape music, large-scale opera and otherwise.[203] Vivier's musical style would shift consistently throughout his career; he was once an advocator of serialism, which had taken a hold on much of Europe's composers in the mid to late 20th century, but would abandon it and come to resent its popularity in later years:
[...] If you go back to serialism, you have to understand what they wanted to do. Serialism wanted to give individual notes their own weight, their individual weight and their individual balance, so you would hear all the notes, consciously. Then you would hear all the groups, and all the groups would have their own weight too. But if you do a cluster, and you say, well I have all my twelve notes there, it's nonsense.
[...] They couldn't serialize the harmony. They couldn't serialize the weight of the vertical relationships. So somehow, it turned into this nondescript vertical world. [...] Also in those years, they made a lot of mistakes. When you talk about balances, you can't do it by simply saying, one to twelve pitches, one to twelve dynamics, and one to twelve for everything. It doesn't work at all.[146]
Vivier is considered to be one of the founders of
Many of his works center around important themes of Christianity, including the chamber pieces Jesus erbarme dich (1973), Liebesgedichte (1975) and Les Communiantes (1977).[208] Despite resenting much of his strict religious upbringing, he continued to maintain a strong spiritual disposition, still believing in God while having no allegiance to any specific denomination.[209]
Application of language and multilingualism
The study of
Several examples of multilingual texts are present in Vivier's music. Chants (1973) predominately features a Latin text, which is sometimes manipulated in the form of being spoken backward.[210] The lexicons of other languages, including Polish (mamouchka for "mother") are also present.[210] The similarly Latin text from Virgil's Eclogues, alongside many other quotations, is used in Liebesgedichte (1975).[208] The latter half of Glaubst du an die Unsterblichkeit der Seele? (1983) features the male narrator reciting a combined text of French and English.[211]
The langue inventées
Vivier first recalled his tendency to create new languages as a child, saying his lack of identity and parents led him to, "[fabricate] my origins as I wanted, pretended to speak strange languages. [...] My whole sensibility became refined and increasingly I drew a veil around myself: finally I was protected!"[21][212] The first example of this technique being used is in his piece Ojikawa (1968), albeit with a string of nonsense-words (e.g. "Niêdokawa ojikawa na'a'a'ouvina ouvi") strung together by the vocalist[213] — similar to the sound poetry and grammelot of dadaists like Hugo Ball and Christian Morgenstern.[214][215] Liebesgedichte (1975) follows a similar motif, but the text becomes more uniform and the basics of a functioning language begin to form, including repetition and a phonetic inventory.[208][216] He attempted to learn the official languages of all the countries he visited, and the influence of these languages, mostly of Asian origin, show up in the sound of his own.[217][218] Vivier would say, "All this language is the result of automatic writing. I have always invented my own language."[55]
The specific phonemes Vivier would use were deliberately chosen for their "emotional content", and how they related to the frequency of the note being sung by the vocalist.
Reception
CBC Radio host and composer David Jaegar would say, "Vivier was brilliant enough to comprehend all of the theory, but he never let the theory stand in the way of self-expression. His was a unique voice that had both complexity and clarity."[21] His friend Harry Halbreich wrote, "His music is truly unlike any other, and is situated completely on the fringes of all currents. From an expression direct and moving, his music only disoriented dry hearts, unable to classify this marginal genius. Claude Vivier had found what so many others searched and searched: the secret of a real new simplicity."[222][223]
Modernist composers Louis Andriessen and György Ligeti are among those who have cited Vivier as a great inspiration to their own music;[224] Ligeti would later dedicate his time to championing Vivier's catalogue posthumously, saying, "His music is one of the most significant, perhaps even one of the most important developments since the works of Stravinsky and Messiaen,"[225] and, "He was neither neo, nor retro, but at the same time was totally outside the avant-garde. It is in the seduction and sensuality of the complex timbres that he reveals himself to be the great master that he is."[223]
Legacy and tributes
Vivier's close friend Thérèse Desjardins was designated the
Former CMQM classmate and experimental composer Walter Boudreau would conduct the premieres of Siddhartha (1975) and Glaubst du an die Unsterblichkeit der Seele? (1983) in 1987 and 1990 respectively, with various Montreal-based orchestras and chamber ensembles.[227][228] The London Contemporary Orchestra performed a special concert for Glaubst in an abandoned London tube station in 2013, to mimic the theme of the composition.[229][230]
In 2005, Serbian-German composer Marko Nikodijević wrote the ensemble piece chambres de ténèbres / tombeau de claude vivier in remembrance of the composer. He would later write and premiere the 2014 opera Vivier at the Munich Biennale, to a libretto by Gunther Geltinger. It is mostly biographical and focuses on the last few years of his life.[231]
The
Lists of works
Complete list of musical works
In chronological order:[233]
- L'homme (1967; lost) for organ
- Prélude pour piano (1967; lost) for piano
- Invention sur un thème pentatonique (1967; unfinished) for organ
- Quatuor à cordes (1968) for string quartet
- Ojikawa (1968) for soprano, clarinet and timpani
- Musique pour une liberté à bâtir (1968–69) for women's voices and orchestra
- Prolifération (1969, rev. 1976) for ondes Martenot, piano and percussion
- Hiérophanie (1970–71) for soprano and ensemble
- Musik für das Ende (1971) for twenty voices and percussion
- Deva et Asura (1971–72) for chamber orchestra
- Variation I (1972) for tape
- [untitled] (1972) for tape
- Hommage: Musique pour un vieux Corse triste (1972) for tape
- Désintégration (1972) for two pianos and optional tape
- Chants (1973) for seven female voices
- O! Kosmos (1973) for soprano and SATB choir
- Jesus erbarme dich (1973) for soprano and choir
- Lettura di Dante (1974) for soprano and mixed septet
- Hymnen an die nacht (1975) for soprano and piano
- Liebesgedichte (1975) for four voices and ensemble
- Pièce pour flûte et piano (1975) for flute and piano
- Pièce pour violon et clarinette (1975) for violin and clarinet
- Pièce pour violon et piano (1975) for violin and piano
- Pièce pour violoncelle et piano (1975) for cello and piano
- Pour guitare (1975) for guitar
- Pianoforte (1975) for piano
- Improvisation pour basson et piano (1975) for bassoon and piano
- Siddhartha (1976) for orchestra
- Woyzeck (1976) for tape
- Learning (1976) for four violins and percussion
- Journal (1977) for four voices, choir and percussion
- Love Songs (1977) ballet for seven vocalists
- Pulau Dewata (1977) for any combination of instruments
- Shiraz (1977) for piano
- Les Communiantes (1977) for organ
- Nanti Malam (1977) for seven voices
- Paramirabo (1978) for flute, violin, cello and piano
- Greeting Music (1978) for flute, oboe, percussion, piano and violoncello
- Kopernikus (1979), an opera in two acts
- Orion (1979) for orchestra
- Aikea (1980) for three percussionists
- Zipangu (1980) for string orchestra
- Lonely Child (1980) for soprano and orchestra
- Cinq chansons pour percussion (1980) for solo percussionist
- Bouchara (1981) for soprano and chamber ensemble
- Et je reverrai cette ville étrange (1981) for chamber ensemble
- A Little Joke (1981) for SATB choir
- Prologue pour un Marco Polo (1981) for soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass soloists and ensemble
- Samarkand (1981) for wind quintet and piano
- Wo bist du Licht! (1981) for mezzo-soprano, orchestra and tape
- Trois airs pour un opéra imaginaire (1982) for soprano and ensemble
- Rêves d'un Marco Polo (1981–83; unfinished) for choir, narrator and chamber ensemble
- Glaubst du an die Unsterblichkeit der Seele? (1983; unfinished) for choir, narrator and chamber ensemble
- Tchaïkovski, un réquiem Russe (1983; unfinished), opera
Complete list of published poems
In chronological order:[234]
- Musique (1964–65)
- En musicant (1964–65)
- L'Amour (1965)
- Serge Bélisle (1965)
- Noël (1965)
- Postulat (1965)
- Not' petit bonheur (1965)
- Le clown (1965–66)
See also
Footnotes
- ^ It is impossible to know exactly where he was born, as his mother gave no information before submitting him to the Montreal orphanage, but it is more likely than not for Vivier to have been born in or around the Montreal metro area.[1]
- ^ Vivier was killed during the night of 7–8 March 1983, but it is unknown what his exact time of death was. Some sources state it was the late hours of the 7th, some say the early hours of the 8th.[1][2]
- ^ Tremblay was of the opinion that Vivier secured his place at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse via flattery toward Stockhausen. As he tells it, Stockhausen asked the aspiring Vivier why he wanted to study with him. "Vivier said: 'Because you are the greatest composer in the world.' That was enough: the only entrance test!"[76][73][74]
- Herman Hesse novel of the same name.[96] This novel had gained a newfound resurgence in popularity during the counterculture revolution, and had already begun to serve an influence to other musical works;[97] among them being Ralph McTell's song "The Ferryman" (1971) and Yes's album Close to the Edge(1972).
- ^ Vivier wrote the performance notes to Shiraz (1977) in French, and this sentence has been translated in different ways. Boosey & Hawkes uses the translation given in the article, but biographer Bob Gilmore states the sentence as, "a pearl of a city, a hard-sculpted diamond".[110]
- ^ Can also be latinized as "Jipangu" and "Chipangu"; Vivier is believed to have taken the name Zipangu from an outdated form of Chinese romanization used in Marco Polo's journals;[116] see Names of Japan for further information.
- ^ Canadian musicologist Ross Braes asserts that Vivier's "jeux de timbres" were the compositional precursor for the couleurs that would later define the last stage of his career. Braes uses the term jeux de timbres, which appears in Vivier's rough drafts and sketches, to represent the "vertical expansion of melody into something quasi-timbral" using, "predetermined chords derived from the principal melody (or scale)". Most often these so-called predetermined arrangements frequently involve mirror inversion (popularized by Béla Bartók), natural harmonics, and fixed interval classes.[137] The jeux de timbres are represented clearest in the pieces Kopernikus (1979) and Orion (1979).[138][139][140]
- ^ The initial police report stated twenty-four stab wounds were found on Vivier's body, but the autopsy and subsequent reports would say the true tally was forty-five.[115]
- ^ Dolzan's initial explanation for Vivier's murder was that it was accidental, as the result of a BDSM session gone wrong. This answer was initially accepted by authorities, as Vivier was known to engage in BDSM activities with other partners in the past. The discovery of Dolzan's heterosexuality and history as a fugitive, however, led to this explanation being largely discounted. Investigators found no evidence to suggest Vivier had hired Dolzan as a prostitute for sadomasochistic favours, or that they ever engaged in sexual activities at all.[170] Dolzan would change his story several times and attempt to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, with his defense arguing, "his childhood in public care was responsible for his psychological problems". Some modern biographers of Vivier consider the BDSM explanation to still be a plausibility, though.[171]
References
Citations
- ^ a b c d Braes (2003), p. 1.
- ^ a b Gilmore (2014), p. 17.
- ^ Gilmore (2014), p. 385.
- ^ a b c Gilmore (2007), p. 2.
- ^ Gilmore (2014), p. 24.
- ^ a b c Cherney, Lawrence (2018). "The tragic real-life story of Quebec composer Claude Vivier is mirrored in his music" CBC Radio. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
- ^ a b Gilmore (2014), p. 25.
- ^ a b c Griffiths, Paul (1996). "From the Edge of Experience, a New Sound". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
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Further reading
- Anderson, Julian (2000). "A Provisional History of Spectral Music". Contemporary Music Review. 19 (2): 7–22. S2CID 191589647.
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- Bail, Louise (2012). Kopernikus, la berceuse à Claude Vivier: Contrepoint imaginare à trois voix. Université du Québec à Montréal's Thesis and Dissertation Repository.
- Bail, Louise (2014). Arias pour Claude Vivier. Groupe Fides. ISBN 978-2-76213-714-9.
- Bergeron, David (2010). Shiraz for Piano Solo by Claude Vivier: an Analysis for the Performer. University of British Columbia Vancouver's Thesis and Dissertation Repository.
- Bisson, Sophie (2019). "Claude Vivier's Kopernikus: An Extramusical Postmortem". The WholeNote. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- Bonfield, Stephan (2017). "Review: Vivier's Kopernikus at Banff Centre the ideal opera of the future". Calgary Herald. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- Bourassa, Jocelyn (1996). "Vivier courait les églises de Pont-Viaupour jouer de l'orgue". L'Hebdo de Laval.
- Braes, Ross (2000). "A Response to Janette Tilley's 'Eternal Recurrence: Aspects of Melody in the Orchestral Music of Claude Vivier'". Discourses in Music. 2 (2): 1–5. Archived from the original on 3 March 2006.
- Bratishenko, Lev (2013). "Review: Claude Vivier venerated at festival". The Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- Christian, Bryan William (2015). Cardano: Chamber Opera for Three Singers, Actor, and Ensemble and "Combination-Tone Class Sets and Redefining the Role of les Couleurs in Claude Vivier's 'Bouchara'". Duke University's Thesis and Dissertation Repository.
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- Condé, Gérard (1983). "Créations a l'Itinéraire: Les mélodies de Claude Vivier". Le Monde. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- Desjardins, Thérèse; Mijnheer, Jaco (1991). "La chronologie des oeuvres de Claude Vivier: historisation de la déshistoire" (PDF). Circuit. 2 (1–2). l'Université Laval et l'Université du Québec à Montréal: 17–30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 March 2012. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
- Demers, Joanna Teresa (2002). Negotiating a Dual Career: Invented Exoticism in Pièce pour flûte et piano by Claude Vivier. University of California, San Diego's Thesis and Dissertation Repository.
- Donaldson, James (2021). "Melody on the Threshold in Spectral Music". Music Theory Online. 27 (2). The Society for Music Theory: 1–7. S2CID 243994786.
- Duchesneau, Louise (1991). "Sur la musique de Claude Vivier: György Ligeti — Propos recueillis par Louise Duchesneau". Circuit. 2 (1–2). Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal: 7–16. doi:10.7202/902024ar.
- Dunning, Jennifer (1977). "Dance: Montrealers Try All Arts." The New York Times. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- Gervasoni, Pierre (2018). "Claude Vivier, bien plus qu'un marginal illuminé". Le Monde. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- Gougeon, Denis; de la Clergerie, Catherine; Bernard, Marie-Hélène (1991). "Claude Vivier ou la Montée au ciel de l'Homme qui riait toujours". France Culture.
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- Kaptainis, Arthur (2014). "Classical music review: Claude Vivier's Hiérophanie is madness at its best". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- Kaptainis, Arthur (2015). "Arthur Kaptainis: Excellent biography of composer Claude Vivier is long overdue". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- Kingston, Andrew (2020). "Death and Fairy Tale: Queer Autothanatography in Claude Vivier". Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. 31 (2). S2CID 229531216.
- Koh, Emily (2017). Seeking Spiritual Liberation: Gong Cycles and Dissolutions in Claude Vivier's 'Prologue pour un Marco Polo'. Brandeis University's Thesis and Dissertation Repository.
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- Lazaridès, Alexandre (2001). "A l'enseigne de la scénographie". Jeu. 101 (4). Les Cahiers de théâtre Jeu: 140–143.
- Levesque, Patrick (2004). Les voix de Vivier: langage harmonique, langage mélodique et langage imaginaire dans les dernières oeuvres de Claude Vivier. Université McGill de Montréal. ISBN 0-494-06518-4.
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- Steinitz, Richard (2017). "The innate melodist". In Bauer, Amy; Kerékfy, Márton (eds.). György Ligeti's Cultural Identities. Routledge. pp. 51–73. ISBN 978-1-31710-510-7.
- Tannenbaum, Peter (1995). Gerrits, Paul; Lévesque, Marie (eds.). "Paramirabo [for] Flute, Violin, Cello and Piano (1978) by Claude Vivier". JSTOR 899348.
- Tannenbaum, Peter (1991). Young, Gayle (ed.). "Claude Vivier Revisited". Sound Notes. 1. Musicworks: 12–27.
- Taylor, Rhonda Janette (2005). Gerard Grisey's 'Anubis et Nout': A Historical and Analytical Perspective. The University of Arizona's Thesis and Dissertation Repository.
- Thomson, Daniel (2017). "A murdered composer, a lost libretto... could this be Canada's greatest opera?". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- Tilley, Janette (2000). "Eternal Recurrence: Aspects of Melody in the Orchestral Music of Claude Vivier". Discourses in Music. 2 (1): 1–10.
- Tremblay, Jacques (2000). "L'écriture à haute voix: Lonely Child de Claude Vivier". Circuit. 11 (1). Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal: 45–67. doi:10.7202/004705ar.
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External links
Information and catalogues
- Official website; contains list of works and biographical information
- Claude Vivier in the National Arts Centre of Canada
- Claude Vivier Archived 17 July 2022 at the Wayback Machine in The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Claude Vivier on the SMCQwebsite
- Claude Vivier in Boosey & Hawkes
- Claude Vivier in Kairos Records
- Claude Vivier in Naxos Records
- Claude Vivier at IMDb
- Claude Vivier at AllMusic
- Claude Vivier discography at Discogs
- "Claude Vivier (biography, works, resources)" (in French and English). IRCAM.
Media
- Lonely Child: The Imaginary World of Claude Vivier (1988) on IMDb; a biographical depiction of Vivier's life and musical performances funded by the Canadian government.
- Claude Vivier: Rêves d'un Marco Polo (2006) on IMDb; an English stage production of Vivier's unfinished cantata of the same name.
- Great Composers: Claude Vivier on YouTube; a short 2017 biographical documentary by American composer Thomas Little.
- In Discussion – Lonely Child – Claude Vivier on YouTube; a November 2012 segment from the BBC Radio 3's "Fifty Modern Classics" program. Includes interviews with soprano Barbara Hannigan and music critic Paul Griffiths.
- Claude Vivier and the Immortality of the Soul; a November 2014 Public Radio Exchange biopic of Vivier by Byrwec Ellison.
Listening
- Pour guitare (1975) (animated score) on YouTube
- Shiraz (1977) (animated score) on YouTube
- Paramirabo (1978) (animated score) on YouTube
- Lonely Child (1980) (animated score) on YouTube
- Wo bist du Licht! (1981) (animated score) on YouTube
- Bouchara (1981) (animated score) on YouTube
- Glaubst du an die Unsterblichkeit der Seele? (1983) (animated score) on YouTube