André Prévost, (30 July 193427 January 2001) was a

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and

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. He was awarded the Canadian Music Council Medal in 1977 and in 1985 he was made an Officer of the

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. He also received the "Trophy for Concert Music" from the Performing Rights Organization of Canada.

Early life and education

He was born in

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He grew up in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec.Robert Fallon.
Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception
'. Taylor & Francis; 22 April 2016. . p. 284–. Prévost was trained at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal where he was a pupil of

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, Jean Papineau-Couture, and Clermont Pépin. Following graduation, he was awarded grants from the Canada Council and the

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which enabled him to study with

Olivier Messiaen Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist who was one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex; harmonically ...

and

Henri Dutilleux Henri Paul Julien Dutilleux (; 22 January 1916 – 22 May 2013) was a French composer active mainly in the second half of the 20th century. His small body of published work, which garnered international acclaim, followed in the tradition of ...

in Paris. In 1963 he won the

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, an award which provided him with the opportunity to study

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Michel Philippot Michel Paul Philippot (2 February 1925 – 28 July 1996) was a French composer, mathematician, acoustician, musicologist, aesthetician, broadcaster, and educator. Life Philippot was born in Verzy. His studies of mathematics were interrupted by Wo ...

Career

During the 1960s Prévost taught at the

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with fellow faculty members Aaron Copland, Zoltán Kodály, Gunther Schuller and Elliott Carter. In April 1967, accompanied by

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, he performed the

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''Terre des hommes'' at the ''Place des arts'' opening ceremonies of the

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world's fair in Montreal, attended by the official delegations of its participating countries, where they strongly projected French writer's

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'idealist rhetoric'.Krôller, Eva-Marie
"Expo '67: Canada's Camelot?"
''Canadian Literature'', Spring–Summer 1997, Issue 152–153, pp. 36–51. From the mid-1970s until his retirement in 1996, he was a professor of music at the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (UdeM; ; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-de ...

.Walter Pitman.
Elmer Iseler: Choral Visionary
'. Dundurn; 28 July 2008. . p. 215–. Among his notable students were composers José Evangelista, Denis Gougeon, Anne Lauber, José Manuel Montañés, and

Michel Longtin Michel Longtin (born 20 May 1946) is a Canadian composer and music educator based in Montreal. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers, he won the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music in 19 ...

."André Prévost fonds"
collectionscanada.gc.ca His composition style has been compared to that of

Alban Berg Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( , ; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively sma ...

.Bob Gilmore.
Claude Vivier: A Biography
'. Boydell & Brewer; 2014. . p. 31–. Prévost died in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

References

External links

Journal d'une création - Film directed by James Dormeyer with Chantal Juillet, Charles Dutoit and André Prévost

André Prévost and José Manuel Montañés at the University of Montreal

André Prévost fonds (R15426)
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