Claude Vivier was born on April 14th, 1948 in Montréal, and 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 electronic music with Gottfried Michael Koening and Hans 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). It also began to show the importance Vivier was to place on texts and unveiled a style of writing that was to stray progressively farther from the usu...

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VIVIER, C.: Reves d'un Marco Polo (Westergasfabriek, 2004)
VIVIER, C.: Reves d'un Marco Polo (Westergasfabriek, 2004)
Composer: Vivier, Claude
Artists: Akker, Marion van den -- ASKO Ensemble -- Couroux, Marc -- Daymond, Karl -- Halteren, John van -- Harries, Kathryn -- Hens, Charles -- Kamp, Harry van der -- Leeuw, Reinbert de -- Leysen, Johan -- Lloyd Morgan, Richard -- Makuuchi, Tomoko -- McFadden, Claron -- Mierau, Terence -- Narucki, Susan -- Ottaway, James -- Poulson, Lani -- Rasker, Helena -- Schoenberg Ensemble -- Scholte, Jose
Label/Producer: Opus Arte