Eugène Chartier (1893 – 1 November 1963) was a Canadian violinist, violist, conductor, and teacher. Born in

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, Chartier studied the violin with

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and

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. He played second

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with the

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from 1915 to 1920, and

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with the Chamberland String Quartet from 1920 to 1925. He also played viola in the CMS Orchestra, the

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, and the

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. In 1922, he founded the orchestra of the

Conservatoire national de musique Conservatoire national de musique was a music conservatory in Montreal, Quebec that was actively providing higher education in music during the first eight decades of the 20th century. Founded in 1905 by Alphonse Lavallée-Smith as the Conservatoir ...

in Montreal, which became the Montreal Philharmonic Orchestra, giving concerts at the

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. He began teaching at the Conseratoire in 1925, and also taught at the colleges of

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and Berthier, and the convent of Ste-Émilie de Viauville. He was appointed director of the Maisonneuve regimental band in 1932, and became a founding member of the

Euterpe Chamber Music Society Euterpe (; el, Εὐτέρπη, lit=rejoicing well' or 'delight , from grc, εὖ, eû, well + el, τέρπειν, térpein, to please) was one of the Muses in Greek mythology, presiding over music. In late Classical times, she was named muse ...

in 1933. He conducted the CMS Orchestra and some of his performances were broadcast on CBC radio. He conducted the premiere of the comic opera ''Père des Amours'' by Eugène Lapierrein 1942.

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