Claude Vivier : a composer's life
(Book)

"The fact of knowing I had no father or mother" : 1948-67

"I want art to be a sacred act, the revelation of forces" : 1967-71)

"To push my language further" : 1971-72

"A need to communicate with the rest of the cosmos" : 1972-74

"Something different is coming, something more precise, more clear" : 1974-76

"A journey into the depths of myself" : 1976-77

"Subtle musics / filling my soul" : 1977-79

"A mystical enchantment" : 1978-79

"Oh beautiful child of the light" : 1979-81

"The passionate love for music that sometimes stops me from composing" : 1981-82

"It's only in thinking about music, and about sound, that I can be happy" : 1982-83

"In Quebec people die easily : 1983.