Albertine Morin-Labrecque

Albertine Rosalie Odile Morin-Labrecque (also: Labrecque-Morin , nee Labrecque ; born June 8, 1886 in Montreal ; † September 25, 1957 ibid) was a Canadian composer, pianist and music teacher.

Life

Albertine Morin-Labrecque began piano training at the age of five, performed publicly two years later and received a diploma at the Académie de musique du Québec at the age of eight . She continued her training with Romain-Octave Pelletier and from 1901 went on concert tours through Canada and the USA.

At the same time she began to study composition and completed a vocal training with Arthur Plamondon in Paris. She gave concerts in Paris, Brussels and New York until she returned to Montreal in 1920. Here she taught music education, piano and analysis at the Conservatoire national and from 1922 to 1951 piano and singing at the University of Montreal . Her students included Gérard Caron and Hector Gratton . In 1922 she founded a trio with her sister Jeanne and the cellist Yvette Lamontagne .

Morin-Labrecque composed the “Chinese opera” Pas-chu , two comic operas, four ballets, a symphonic poem ( Le matin ) and two piano concertos. In addition, she wrote music educational textbooks and monographs and essays on Bach , Beethoven , Chopin , Gounod , Liszt , Massenet , Mendelssohn , Mozart , Schubert , Schumann , Verdi and Wagner .

Works

• Pas-chu , opera
• Francine , comic opera, premiered in 1930
• Le Matin , symphonic poem
• Pantomime for violin and piano, 1931

Fonts

• L'Art d'étudier le piano , Montreal 1922
• Recueil de modèles et de dictées musicales
• Méthode de piano
• Charles Gounod et ses opéras 1818-1893 , Montreal 1944
• Jules Massenet et ses opéras, 1842-1912 , Montreal 1944

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Canadian Encyclopedia, Albertine Morin-Labrecque , accessed February 21, 2019