Marvin Duchow

Marvin Duchow ( born June 10, 1914 in Montreal, † May 24, 1979 ) was a Canadian composer, musicologist and educator -.

Duchow studied from 1933 to 1937 music theory with Claude Champagne at McGill University, then to 1939 at the Curtis Institute in Rosario Scalero and Samuel Chotzinoff and finally in 1942 at New York University. From 1944 to 1978 he taught at McGill University, since 1955 as head of the music theory department; next 1943-1949 also at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec. Among his pupils were Kenneth Gilbert, Hugh Hartwell, Carl Little, Roger Matton, Pierre Mercure, Dorothy Morton, Wayne Riddell, Robert Silverman, Gregory Butler, Frederick A. Hall, Jacob Siskind, Gerrit Tete Castle, Nadia Turbide, Claire Versailles and Alan Belkin, George Little and Alejandro Enrique Planchart, the private lessons with him had.

Duchow was an expert in Renaissance music and French music of the 18th century. He was from 1957 to 1962 co-editor of the Canadian Music Journal, and since 1976 the Journal of the American Society for Jewish Music Musica Judaica.

He has composed works for orchestra and chamber orchestra, organ and piano pieces and vocal music and published a number of musicological publications. For Gaston Allaires book The Theory of hexachord, solmization and the modal system he got the final revision.

In 1980 the Music Library of McGill University Marvin Duchow Music Library was named. On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, organized the McGill University and the American Society for Jewish Music, a memorial concert at the Pollack Hall.

Works

  • Songs of My Youth, song cycle, 1930
  • Variations on a Chorale for orchestra, 1936
  • For a Rose's Sake, 1938
  • Motet, 1938
  • Seven Chorale Preludes for Organ in Traditional Style, 1939
  • Quartet in C Minor, 1939, 1942
  • A Carol Choir, 1943
  • Badinerie for Piano and Orchestra, 1947
  • Chant intimate ( Prelude ) for piano, 1947
  • Sonata for piano, 1955
  • Movement for Strings ( Largamente ), 1972
  • Three Songs of the Holocaust / Trois Chants de l' Holocaust on German -language texts by Nelly Sachs, 1977
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • Canadian Composer
  • Musicologist
  • Music teacher
  • Canadian
  • Born in 1914
  • Died in 1979
  • Man
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