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Contant Gueroult
Contant is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexis Contant (1858–1918), Canadian composer, organist, pianist, and music educator * George Contant George C. Contant, aka George Sontag (April 10, 1864 - 1930), was an outlaw of the American West known mostly for train robbery, robberies. Like his older brother, John Sontag, he was originally from Mankato, Minnesota, Mankato, Minnesota. Backg ... (1864-1930), American outlaw See also * Contant, U.S. Virgin Islands {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Contant
Joseph Pierre Alexis Contant (12 November 1858 – 28 November 1918) was a Canadian composer, organist, pianist, and music educator. Trained as a pianist, he became one of the first Canadians to compose large-scale choral and orchestral works, in spite of the difficulty of finding suitable teachers of musical composition. His younger years were spent mostly in teaching, family, and work as a church organist, and many of his compositions were written later in life. Early life Contant was born in Montreal, the son of two amateur musicians. His father was a violinist who was involved in a number of community ensembles and his mother was a piano and voice student of Emma Albani. His younger siblings, Marie and Joseph-Albert, also became musicians. All three children had their initial musical lessons from their mother. At the age of 11, Contant became a pupil of organist and pianist Joseph-A. Fowler and two years later gave his first public recital. At the age of 17 he became a stude ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Contant
George C. Contant, aka George Sontag (April 10, 1864 - 1930), was an outlaw of the American West known mostly for train robbery, robberies. Like his older brother, John Sontag, he was originally from Mankato, Minnesota, Mankato, Minnesota. Background Contant was the younger of two sons of Jacob Contant and the former Maria Bohn. After the death of their father in 1867, John Sontag took the surname of his stepfather, Matthias Sontag, his mother's second husband, a veteran of the Union Army during the American Civil War. George Contant however kept the original name though the two were usually called ''The Sontag Brothers''. The two were frequent partners in crime. After he stole cigars from an employer, George Contant was sent to reform school in St. Paul, Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota. After a subsequent conviction for theft, Contant was imprisoned at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln, Nebraska, Lincoln. Contant married Therese Landgraff on October 11, 1887, in La Crosse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |