ABSTRACT
When a composer demonstrates creative abilities in fields extending beyond their chosen musical vocation, it is always significant and sheds light on their aesthetic thinking, creative development and even the inspirational forces informing their compositional output. To investigate these issues is to attempt to enter as aspect of Jolivet's creative world that remained largely private. Representing the continuation of a spiritual link with Varese as well as symbolising all that he had learned from his maître, the objects became part of Jolivet's compositional process through influencing the mood and character of each movement. Exhibiting at the public launch of Cubism at the Salon des Indépendants in 1911, Gleizes became one of the leading figures of the Cubist movement in France. Jolivet was born in Montmartre into a musical and artistic family. His mother was an accomplished pianist – the first to introduce her son to music – and his father, although an accountant by profession, was a painter by vocation.
