Eugène Chartier

Eugène Chartier (c. 1893 in Montreal, † November 1, 1963 in Beaconsfield (Quebec ) ) was a Canadian violinist, conductor and music educator.

Chartier was a violin student of Oscar Martel and Alfred De Sève. He was from 1915 to 1920, second violinist of the Dubois String Quartet and then played until 1925 Chamberland in Viola String Quartet. He also was a violist of the Montreal Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Montreal Festival Promenade Symphony Concerts and the.

In 1922 he founded the orchestra of the Conservatoire national deMontreal (later Montreal Philharmonic Orchestra ). Since 1925 he taught at the National Conservatory, in addition also to the College of Terrebonne and Berthier and the convent of Ste- Émilie de Viauville. Among his pupils were Roméo Mastrocola and Lucien Robert.

Chartier in 1932 became director of the Maisonneuve Regimental band, in the following year he founded the Euterpe Chamber Music Society. In 1937 he was invited to conduct a performance of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony with the Orchestra of the Promenade Concerts; In addition he also conducted at several radio broadcasts of the CBC. In 1942 he conducted the first performance in the national monument of Eugene LaPierre's comic opera Père des amours.

  • Classical violinist
  • Conductor
  • Canadian
  • Born in the 19th century
  • Died in 1963
  • Man
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