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Antoine Dessane
Marie-Hyppolyte-Antoine Dessane (9 December 1826 – 8 June 1873), born in France and resident mostly in Quebec City in Canada from 1849, was an organist, conductor and composer. Life Dessane was born in Forcalquier, son of Louis Dessane, a music teacher, and his wife Marie Maurel. The family moved to Billom in 1828, where Louis Dessane taught at a Jesuit college, and to Paris in 1837. Antoine Dessane, from age 10, studied piano, organ and cello at the Conservatoire de Paris; the director at that time was Luigi Cherubini, and fellow students were César Franck and Jacques Offenbach."Antoine Dessane" The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14 March 2020. Dictionary of Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec City
Quebec City ( or ; french: Ville de Québec), officially Québec (), is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Communauté métropolitaine de Québec, metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. It is the eleventhList of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, -largest city and the seventhList of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, -largest metropolitan area in Canada. It is also the List of towns in Quebec, second-largest city in the province after Montreal. It has a humid continental climate with warm summers coupled with cold and snowy winters. The Algonquian people had originally named the area , an Algonquin language, AlgonquinThe Algonquin language is a distinct language of the Algonquian languages, Algonquian language family, and is not a misspelling. word meaning "where the river narrows", because the Saint Lawrence River na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
