Claude Vivier
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- Works
- 7
Top works
- Et Je Reverrai Cette Ville Etrange
- Liebesgedichte
- Cinq Chansons Pour Percussion
- La culture, un métier, une passion
- Hymnen an die Nacht
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1948-04-14
- Active to
- 1983-03-07
composercontemporary classical
Discography
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- 2,876
- Total plays
- 17,933
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Claude Vivier (14 April 1948 - 7 March 1983) was a Canadian composer. Born to unknown parents in Montréal, 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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Claude
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Montreal
- Place of death
- 11th arrondissement of Paris
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- French
- Field of work
- composer
- Genre
- opera
- Instrument
- piano
- Official website
- www.claudevivier.com
- Image
- Claude Vivier 1982.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1948-04-14
- date of death
- 1983-03-12
- manner of death
- homicide
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Canada
- Commons category
- Claude Vivier
- P12674
- 4088 Baggesen
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