Joseph-Arthur Bernier

Joseph- Arthur Bernier ( born March 19, 1877 in Lévis, † April 28, 1944 in Quebec ) was a Canadian organist, pianist, composer and music educator.

Bernier attended the Collège de Lévis in Quebec and took piano and organ lessons at Philéas Roy and Gustave Gagnon. From 1892 to 1907 he was organist at the church of St -Sauveur, then until 1917 at Notre -Dame-de -Jacques- Cartier. 1902-03 he studied organ and composition in Paris with Alexandre Guilmant Félix Fourdrain. He entered this time as a companion of the cellist Jean Gérardy and the violinist Ovide Musin and in 1903 a member of the Société des auteurs et Compositeurs de Paris.

As an organist he has given concerts in various cities in the U.S. and consecrated in Montreal, the Church Organs St- Pierre ( 1908), St- Jean -Baptiste (1915 ) and the Sacré -Coeur (1917 ) a. In 1917 he became organist of the Union musicale de Québec and the Church of St- Jean -Baptiste in Quebec. From 1922 to 1944 he taught at Laval University, where Charles -Eugène Albert, Dantès Belleau, Clotilde Coulombe, Rolland -G. Gingras and Omer Létourneau were among his pupils.

Bernier wrote, inter alia, a fair for women's voices, several motets and pieces for the organ, the piano, the violin, the cello and the oboe. Even his children Gabrielle, Maurice and Conrad and his grandson Françoys, Pierre and Madeleine Bernier became known as a musician.

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  • The Canadian Encyclopedia - Bernier, Joseph- Arthur
  • Canadian Composer
  • Classic organist
  • Classic pianist
  • Music teacher
  • Born in 1877
  • Died in 1944
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