Germaine Malépart (July 7, 1898 – April 19, 1963) was a Canadian pianist and music educator. She was born in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (now

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) and began taking piano lessons with at the age of 7. When she was 13, she performed for the Ladies' Morning Musical Club in

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. In 1917, she won the

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and, in 1920, she received a scholarship from the Ladies' Morning Musical Club. Malépart studied five years at the

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with

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, Maurice Amour and Roland Broche. After her return to Montreal, she toured throughout Canada and the United States and performed on radio. In 1942, she began teaching at the École supérieure de musique d'Outremont and at the

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. Her students included Lise Boucher, Andrée Desautels,

Pierre Hétu Pierre Hétu (April 22, 1936 in Montreal – December 3, 1998 in Montreal) was a conductor and pianist. He studied music from 1955–57 at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal with Germaine Malépart (piano) and at the U ...

Claude Lagacé Claude Lagacé (1 May 1917, Sorel-Tracy, Quebec – 7 February 2019, Quebec City) was a Canadian organist, choral conductor, writer on music, and music educator. He was trained as an organist by Henri Gagnon at Université Laval and also studied pi ...

, , François Morel, Renée Morisset, Claude Savard, William Stevens, Gilles Tremblay and Ronald Turini. Malépart died in Montreal at the age of 64.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Malepart, Germaine 1898 births 1963 deaths Canadian music educators Canadian women music educators Musicians from Quebec People from Laval, Quebec 20th-century Canadian classical pianists Canadian women classical pianists 20th-century Canadian women pianists Academic staff of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal