Georges-Émile Tanguay

Georges -Émile Tanguay ( born June 5, 1893 in Quebec City, † November 24, 1964 ibid ) was a Canadian organist, music teacher and composer.

Tanguy had first lessons in Quebec Joseph - Arthur Bernier, Arthur Letondal and Romain Pelletier. From 1912 to 1914 he studied in Paris at Louis Vierne organ and harmony with Félix Fourdrain. On a return visit to Paris in 1920 he studied organ with Édouard Mignan, harmony and counterpoint with Georges Caussade and piano with Simone Plé - Caussade and attended the composition class by Vincent d' Indy at the Schola Cantorum. Subsequently he took organ lessons with Pietro Yon and Gaston Dethier in New York.

In 1925 he returned to Canada and became organist at the Church of De l' Immaculée - Conception in Montreal. Since 1943, he taught harmony at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec and Université de Montréal; there later he also gave organ lessons. Among his pupils were, inter alia, Marcel Beaulieu, Jeannine Bégin, Léon Bernier, Maurice Blackburn, Marcel Lauren Celle, the sisters Gilberte, Marcelle and Magdeleine Martin, Lucien Martin, Paul -Émile McCaughan, André Mérineau, Renée Morisset and Micheline Tessier.

Tanguay little extensive compositional work includes piano and organ pieces, some choral works, orchestral arrangements as well as an original orchestral work.

Works

  • Pompadour Gavotte for Piano
  • Air de ballet for piano, 1912
  • Menuet for piano, 1912
  • Scherzo - Valse for piano, 1912
  • Sarabande for Piano, 1912
  • Causerie for piano, 1912
  • Gavotte et Musette for piano, 1912
  • Cor Jesus for mixed choir, 1912
  • O Salutaris for mixed choir, 1912
  • Pavane for Piano, 1914
  • Souvenir for Cello and Piano, 1914
  • Romance for Violin, Harp and Orchestra, 1915
  • Graduel et Trait for three male voices, 1917
  • Cor Jesus for mixed choir
  • Prayer / Prière for Organ, 1918
  • Hommage à Couperin for Clarinet, Bassoon and String Quintet, 1920
  • Trois pièces brèves for piano, 1920 Hommage à Couperin,
  • Apaisement (also for wind quintet and harp)
  • Danseuses devant Aphrodite (also for orchestra)
  • Canadian Composer
  • Music teacher
  • Classic organist
  • Born in 1893
  • Died in 1964
  • Man
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