Claude Vivier: A Composer's Life

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 wasfound 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 andbiographer Bob Gilmore tells here the full story of Vivier's fascinating life, from his abandonment a…