Léo-Pol Morin

Léo- Pol Morin ( James Callihou, born July 13, 1892 in Cap St -Ignace, † May 29, 1941 near the Lac Marois ) was a Canadian pianist, music critic and composer.

Life

Studied under Gustave Morin in Quebec and Henri Gagnon and in Montreal at Arthur Letondal and Guillaume Couture. In 1912 he was awarded a Prix d'Europe and went to Paris, where he was a pupil of Isidor Philipp, Raoul Pugno and Ricardo Viñes and harmony and counterpoint studied with Jules Mouquet.

Morin made ​​his debut as a pianist in Paris, with works by Cesar Franck and Maurice Ravel It was here that the first performance of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps. With the outbreak of the First World War, he returned to Canada, where he worked as a pianist and teacher.

From 1919 to 1925 he lived again as a pianist in Paris. Here he played the world premiere of Rodolphe Mathieu's dedicated to him Trois Préludes and the Paris premiere of Alban Berg's Sonata Opus 1, 1923, he undertook with a Ravel concert tour through England, Belgium and the Netherlands.

1925 Morin settled in Montreal, where he became secretary of the office of the Pro Musica Society of New York and in 1927, together with Victor Brault organized the first music festival featuring works by Debussy. In 1926 he became a member of the Comité d' honneur of the Conservatoire International de Paris.

From 1926 to 1928 he wrote music reviews for the magazine La Patrie, then to 1933 weekly contributions for La Presse. Some of his articles were also in the Paris newspapers Le Monde and La Revue musicale nouveau. Since 1929 he also taught at the Conservatoire National in Montreal.

The first concert of the Société des concerts symphoniques de Montréal ( Montreal Symphony Orchestra ), he played Mendelssohn's Capriccio brilliant 1935, the following season Francis Poulenc's Concert champêtre. After concert tours throughout the United States, Spain and Morocco, he has taught since 1936 at the École Vincent- d'Indy.

In addition, he was also broadcast concerts for the CBC, where he worked at the weekly quiz show SVP with. With employees of the show he came in 1941 in a car accident near the Lac Marois killed.

His compositions published under the pseudonym James Morin Callihou. He composed the Suite canadienne and Three Eskimos for piano, as well as of Indian folklore inspired Chants de sacrifice and edited French-Canadian folk songs for voice and piano. His most famous pupils were Paule - Aimée Bailly, François Brassard and Jean Papineau - Couture.

• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• Canadian Composer
• Music critic
• Classic pianist
• Canadian
• Born in 1892
• Died in 1941
• Man