Gaston Dufresne
Gaston Dufresne (9 September 1898 – 6 December 1998) was the principal bassist in the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1927 to 1957 and with the Florida West Coast Symphony from 1963 to 1979. Among his contrabass students were American composer Leroy Anderson and Boston Symphony principal trumpeter Roger Voisin. He also taught solfège, a singing technique used to teach pitch, for which his students included future-musicologist Robert Gjerdingen.
Gaston Dufresne
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- Born
- 1898 · Lille.
- Died
- 1998 · Sarasota.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- musician · double-bassist · university teacher
- Languages
- French
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Gaston Dufresne (1898 – 1998) is described as a musician, double bassist and university teacher in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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Gaston Dufresne was born in Lille (1898) and died in Sarasota, Florida. (1998).
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Born at Lille in 1898, died in Sarasota in 1998.
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