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Chronological List Of Canadian Classical Composers
{{Unreferenced, date=June 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) Baroque * Charles-Amador Martin (1648–1711) Classical *Joseph Quesnel (1746–1809) Romantic *Stephen Codman (c. 1796–1852) *James P. Clarke (1807/8–1877) * Robert Ambrose (1824–1908) *Jean-Baptiste Labelle (1825–1898) *Ernest Gagnon (1834–1915) *Adélard Joseph Boucher (1835–1912) *Frantz Jehin-Prume (1839–1899) *Calixa Lavallée (1842–1891) *Gustave Gagnon (1842–1930) * Romain-Octave Pelletier I (1843–1927) *Joseph-A. Fowler (1845–1917) *Guillaume Couture (1851–1915) *J. E. P. Aldous (1853–1934) *Alexis Contant (1858–1918) * Alfred De Sève (1858–1927) *W. O. Forsyth (1859–1937) Post romantic/Early modern * Louis-Phillipe Laurendeau (1861–1916) * Humfrey Anger (1862–1913) *Charles A.E. Harriss (1862–1929) *Achille Fortier (1864–1939) *Clarence Lucas (1866–1947) * Paul Ambrose (1868–1941) * Frédéric Pelletier (1870–1944) *W. H. Hewlett (1873–1940) *Joseph Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles-Amador Martin
Charles-Amador Martin (7 March 1648 – 19 June 1711) was a priest, singer and composer of sacred music in New France. He was the second priest to be ordained in what is now Canada,Sir James MacPherson Le Moine. Quebec, Past and Present: A History of Quebec, 1608-1876'. A. Coté & c,̊; 1876. p. 21–.Willy Amtmann. Music in Canada, 1600-1800'. Habitex Books; 1975. p. 142, 290. the first being Germain Morin (priest), Germain Morin. He spent most of his priesthood in or near Quebec City, where he became known for his participation in church services as a musician. Early life Martin was born in Quebec, the son of Abraham Martin, a river pilot in New France, and Marguerite Langlois.Jean B. A. Ferland. 1534–1663'. De Gruyter; 5 November 2018. p. 202. He attended Jesuit College and trained as a priest at the Séminaire de Québec at a young age.Dix. Les Cahiers des Dix'. 1969. p. 16, 30. Career Martin was ordained by François de Laval, Bishop Laval in March 1671. His first pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humfrey Anger
Joseph Humfrey Anger (3 June 186211 June 1913) was a Canadian organist, pianist, conductor, composer, and music educator of English birth. His compositional output consists mainly of church music and works for solo piano and organ. Some of his more well known works are ''A Concert Overture'' for organ (1895), the patriotic song ''Hail Canada'' (1911), and ''Tintamarre, Morceau de Salon'' (1911), all of which were published by Whaley, Royce & Co. The latter piece was notably the first published classical composition to thoroughly integrate true tone clusters. He also wrote the textbooks ''Form in Music'' and ''A Treatise on Harmony'', both of which were widely used in music schools in North America. Life and career Born at Ashbury in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), Anger studied at New College, Oxford where he earned a Bachelor of Music. He began his career as a school teacher and a church organist-choirmaster in his native country. He was notably the conductor of the Ludlow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Graham Manson
Robert Graham Manson (11 June 1883 – 14 February 1950) was a British-born musician. He was born in London, one of four sons of James Alexander Manson (born 1852), a journalist and author. One of his brothers was James Bolivar Manson (1879 - 1945) who was an artist and Director of the Tate Gallery in London from 1930 to 1938. Manson was a student at the Royal College of Music from January 1900 to December 1903. His tutors included Arthur Somervell, Sir Frederick Bridge and Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. He played the violin, viola and piano. He went on to play in the string sections of the Scottish Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra before emigrating to North America. Here he played in the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra (Sokoloff, conductor) for two seasons, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (Frank Welsman, conductor) for three seasons and then went on to become leader of the Second Violins in the New Symphony Orchestra of Toronto (Dr Von Kunits, conductor). In 1913 he ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred La Liberté
Alfred La Liberté (10 February 1882 – 7 May 1952) was a Canadian composer, pianist, writer on music, and music educator. He was a disciple and close personal friend of Alexander Scriabin. He was also an admirer of Marcel Dupré and Nikolai Medtner. Dupré notably dedicated his ''Variations, Opus 22'' for piano to him and Medtner dedicated his ''Sonata minacciosa, Opus 53 no. 2'' and his song ''The Captive, Opus 52 no. 7'' to La Liberté. Most of his own compositions remain unfinished. He also contributed articles to ''Le Passe-Temps'', including one on Scriabin in May 1946. Life and career Born in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, La Liberté was named after the Canadian sculptor of the same name. He began his piano studies as a teenager with a Miss Malsberg. His later piano teachers included J.-B. Denys, Dominique Ducharme, Romain-Octave Pelletier I, and Émiliano Renaud. In 1902 he entered the Stern Conservatory in Berlin where he studied with such teachers as Ern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Nathaniel Dett
Robert Nathaniel Dett (October 11, 1882 – October 2, 1943), often known as R. Nathaniel Dett and Nathaniel Dett, was a Black Canadian-American composer, organist, pianist, choral director, and music professor. Born and raised in Canada until the age of 11, he moved to the United States with his family and had most of his professional education and career there. During his lifetime he was a leading Black composer, known for his use of African-American folk songs and spirituals as the basis for choral and piano compositions in the 19th century Romantic style of Classical music. He was among the first Black composers during the early years after the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) was organized. His works often appeared among the programs of Will Marion Cook's New York Syncopated Orchestra. Dett performed at Carnegie Hall and at the Boston Symphony Hall as a pianist and choir director. Early life Dett was born in 1882 in Drummondville, Ontario (no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Healey Willan
James Healey Willan (12 October 1880 – 16 February 1968) was an Anglo-Canadian organist and composer. He composed more than 800 works including operas, symphonies, chamber music, a concerto, and pieces for band, orchestra, organ, and piano. He is best known for his church music. Biography Willan was born in England on 12 October 1880 and began musical training at age eight, with studies at St. Saviour's Choir School in Eastbourne. He continued at St. Saviour's until 1895, when he began working as organist and choirmaster at several London-area churches. He earned, by examination in organ playing, harmony, counterpoint, history and orchestration, the ARCO in 1897 and fellowship in 1899. From 1903 to 1913, he was organist and choirmaster of St. John the Baptist Church on Holland Road in London. The Anglo-Catholic Tractarian movement had led to an Anglican revival of plainsong, and in 1910 Willan joined the London Gregorian Association (which strove to preserve and re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Miro
Henri Enrique Miro (13 November 1879 – 19 July 1950) was a Canadian composer/arranger, conductor, pianist, and music critic of Catalan birth. He was a pioneering conductor for Canadian radio and his works were performed in all of Montreal's major performance venues of the day. He is best known for his operas, although the Montreal Symphony Orchestra did perform some of his symphonic music. Early life and education Born in Tarrega, Spain, Miro began his musical education under Padre Domingo de Guzman at the monastery of Montserrat. In 1895 he entered the Barcelona Conservatory where he was a pupil of Bienvenido Socias y Mercadé. After earning his diploma, he moved to France in 1898 where he was director of an opera troupe for four years. Career In 1902 Miro immigrated to Montreal where he was active as a composer/arranger, conductor, pianist, and pedagogue. His notable students included Lucio Agostini, Fleurette Beauchamp, and Rafael Masella. In 1936 he was the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Heins
Donald Heins (19 February 1878 – 1 January 1949) was a Canadian violinist, violist, conductor, organist, composer, and music educator of English birth. He notably founded the first professional orchestra in Ottawa, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra (no relation to the current orchestra of that name), in 1902, serving as its director until 1927. He also served in a variety of positions with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from 1927–1949, including concertmaster, principal violist, and assistant conductor. He was highly active as an educator, notably founding the instrumental music program at Ottawa's public school system and teaching on the faculties of the Canadian Conservatory of Music (1902–1927) and the Toronto Conservatory of Music (1927–1948). His compositions include several motets and anthems, some chamber music for string instruments, a small amount of orchestral music, the ''Saint Ursula Mass'' for female choir and small orchestra, and two short operettas, ''An Old T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romain Pelletier
Romain Pelletier (sometimes spelled Peltier) (22 August 1875 – 24 November 1953) was a Canadian organist, choir conductor, composer, and music educator. His compositional output consists entirely of works for solo organ and motets. He was a founding member of the Société des artistes musiciens de Montréal and was a much admired teacher of counterpoint, fugue, and the organ. Life and career Born in Montreal, Pelletier was part of a prominent musical family in Quebec. He was the son of musician Romain-Octave Pelletier I, the brother of composer and conductor Frédéric Pelletier, and the uncle of violinist Romain-Octave Pelletier II. His other brother Victor was a cellist in J.-J. Goulet's Montreal Symphony Orchestra of which he also served as music librarian. Pelletier studied the piano and organ in his native city with Arthur Letondal and was a singing and harmony student of Achille Fortier. In 1909 he became organist/choirmaster at Saint-Léon de Westmount Chur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Allard (fiddler)
Joseph Allard (February 1, 1873 – November 14, 1947) was a Canadian fiddler and composer. He occasionally recorded under the pseudonym Maxime Toupin. Allard made many popular recordings, including '' Reel de l'Aveugle'', '' Reel de Chateauguay'', '' Reel de Jacques Cartier'', and '' Reel du voyageur''. During most of his life he was rarely in the public eye, and worked much of his life as a fisherman. After his recordings became popular, he was known as ''The Prince of Fiddlers''. Childhood Allard's birthplace is reported both as 1 February 1873 in Woodland now Lery, Quebec and as 1 July 1873 in Châteauguay, Quebec. His family was living in Quebec when he was quite young. Allard's father was a fiddler, and when Allard reached the age of nine he was instructed in fiddling. Allard remained in Quebec until the age of sixteen, when he moved back to the United States, where he began to enter fiddling competitions. Fiddling Allard entered fiddling competitions throughout th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric Pelletier
Frédéric Pelletier (1 May 1870 – 30 May 1944) was a Canadian choir conductor, music educator, composer, music critic, journalist, civil servant, military officer, and physician. He was one of the principal music critics in Montreal during the first half of the 20th century, having worked in that capacity for every major publication in Montreal at one time or another. He was also a professor of music history at several institutions and worked as a choirmaster in several Montreal churches. His compositional output was mainly dedicated to sacred choral works, including several motets and carols, 2 oratorios, a ''Requiem Mass'', and a ''Stabat Mater''. He also wrote some works for solo organ, some songs, and a number of harmonizations of Canadian folk tunes. Life and career Born in Montreal, Pelletier was part of a prominent musical family in Quebec. He was the son of musician Romain-Octave Pelletier I, the brother of organist, composer and conductor Romain Pelletier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Ambrose
Paul Ambrose (11 October 1868 – 1 July 1941) was a Canadian organist, conductor, composer, and music educator who was primarily active in the United States. His compositional output includes more than 200 songs, choral pieces, and works for solo piano and organ. He is particularly remembered for his anthems, which have been performed widely in North America. Some of his better-known works include the anthems ''Saviour, Breathe an Evening Blessing'', ''O Little Town of Bethlehem'', and ''Come unto Me''; and the song ''Rose-Bud''. Life and career Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Ambrose was the son of composer and organist Robert Ambrose and the grandson of organist Charles Ambrose. His cousin, pianist Ellen Ambrose, founded the Duet Club of Hamilton in 1889. He began his musical training in the piano and the organ as a young child with his father. In 1886, at the age of 18, Ambrose moved to New York City to assume the post of organist-choirmaster at Madison Ave Methodist Episco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
