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3 unusual facts about Claude Vivier


Claude Vivier

In 1971, following study with Gilles Tremblay, he began a period of three years' study in Europe, first with Gottfried Michael Koenig at the Institute for Sonology in Utrecht, and then in Cologne with Karlheinz Stockhausen.

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.

Susan Narucki

She has appeared in the world premieres of several operas at the Netherlands Opera including Louis Andriessen and Peter Greenaway's Writing to Vermeer and Claude Vivier's Reves d'un Marco Polo as well as in Elliott Carter's What Next?


Bob Gilmore

He has also written extensively on the American experimental tradition, microtonal music and spectral music, including the work of such figures as James Tenney, Horațiu Rădulescu, Claude Vivier, and Frank Denyer.

Sasha Siem

While parallels have been drawn with pioneering singer-songwriters such as Tom Waits, Jacques Brel, Gary Glitter Björk, and Joanna Newsom the influence of art-song composers such as György Kurtág, Claude Vivier, Salvatore Sciarrino is equally evident in her music.


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