François Brassard
François Joseph Brassard (6 October 1908 in Métabetchouan – 26 April 1976 in Quebec City) was a Canadian ethnomusicologist, organist, composer and music teacher. Brassard studied piano with Rolland-Georges Gingras, organ with Omer Létourneau and harmony with Robert Talbot. He finished his training in 1933–34 in Paris with Albert Bertelin and Guy de Lioncourt and in 1935 at London's Royal College of Music with Ralph Vaughan Williams.
François Brassard
- Born
- 1908 · Métabetchouan.
- Died
- 1976 · Quebec City.
- Nationality
- Canada
- Occupation
- composer · musicologist · music educator · ethnomusicologist
- Education
- Royal College of Music
- Honours
- honorary doctorate at the Laval University
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Brassard was an organist from 1930 to 1970 at the Church of Saint-Dominique in Jonquière, (Quebec). Starting in 1940, he collected more than 1200 French-Canadian folksongs on journeys throughout Canada, and published a series of articles and essays. His arrangements were broadcast in two series on CBC Radio. He also taught at Université Laval beginning in 1946 and worked at the folklore archives there. One of his notable pupils was composer Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux. His composition Panis angelicus won a prize in 1942 from the Société des musiciens d'église de la province de Québec. The concert hall of the Cégep de Jonquière was named Salle François Brassard in his honour in 1965.
François Brassard is recorded as composer, musicologist, music educator and ethnomusicologist.
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François Brassard (6 October 1908 – 26 April 1976) is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The birth of François Brassard is recorded on 6 October 1908, and the death on 26 April 1976.
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1908
François Brassard born at Métabetchouan.
1976
François Brassard died at Quebec City.
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