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Claude Vivier Quotes

1948–1983 Canada

Claude Vivier (14 April 1948 - 7 March 1983) was a Canadian contemporary composer, pianist, poet and ethnomusicologist of Québécois origin. After studying with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne, Vivier became an innovative member of the "German Feedback" movement, a subset of what is now known as spectral music.

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For the first time in my life I feel good in Paris!

I love Germany as much as I hate France.

I've always been passionate, crazy about music, and believe me it's wonderful.

[It is] a work for Javanese and Balinese gongs and other types of metal that I brought back with me from my journey, here the vision will be fundamentally a religious one.

Already in October at the same time as my course with Stockhausen I will have to learn 2 African languages. Probably around January I will go to South Africa to study African music. This project is terribly important for me because for me to spend one year at the sources of music and to understand the fundamental reasons for music is terribly important, essential to the formation of a composer.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Claude Vivier (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.