J.-J. Gagnier

Jean- Josaphat Gagnier ( born December 2, 1885 in Montreal, † December 16, 1949 ) was a Canadian conductor and composer.

Gagnier had first clarinet lessons with his father, Joseph Gagnier, then at Jacques Vanpoucke, Louis van Loocke, Léon Medaer and Oscar Arnold, studied trombone with Émile Barbot and Carl Wester Meier and piano with Alexis Contant and Romain- Octave Pelletier and studied music theory with Romain Pelletier, Charles Tanguy and Orpha Deveaux.

At the age of fourteen, he appeared on Sohmer Park and had soon dauf as a choral conductor and trombonist with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. In 1910 he founded the Montreal Concert Band. 1913 appointed him Frank Stephen Meighen appointed head of the Canadian Grenadier Guards band; He held this position until 1943. From 1917 to 1919 he headed the Sohmer Park Concert Band.

In the following years he undertook concert tours through the United States, preferably with the Goldman Band. In 1920 he founded the Montreal Little Symphony Orchestra, which he led until 1931. In 1927 he founded the (third) Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.

In 1931 he played with the Canadian Grenadier Guards band, a twenty-six concerts for radio. From 1934 until his death he was Music Director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1942 he founded, together with four of his brothers and his son Roland Gagnier the wind quintet.

Gagnier taught from 1925 to 1930 at Mont -St- Louis College and at the Collège de Montréal; next he taught at the National Conservatory, at the McGill Conservatory and at the College de musique Dominion. He compiled the first catalog of the works of Canadian composers, which appeared in 1947.

Of the numerous works Gagnier, attributable to the late Romantic period, especially the opera Le Dame de Coeur has remained unknown.

Gagnier came from a musically talented family; next to his father Joseph Gagnier his brothers Guillaume René Armand, Ernest, Lucien and Réal as well as renowned in the next generation of Roland, Claire, Gérald and Ève Gagnier musicians.

  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • Canadian Composer
  • Conductor
  • Canadian
  • Born 1885
  • Died in 1949
  • Man
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