Alfred La Liberté
Joseph-François Alfred La Liberté (born February 10, 1882 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu , Québec , † May 7, 1952 in Montreal ) was a Canadian composer, pianist and music teacher .
Life
La Liberté was a piano student of Dominique Ducharme and Émiliano Renaud . In 1902 he published his first composition, the patriotic song Le Canada based on a text by Octave Crémazie . In the same year he went to Berlin, where he studied piano with Paul Lutzenko , harmony with Ernst Baeker and composition with Wilhelm Klatte at the Stern Conservatory . He performed at the ducal court in Coburg and in Berlin by Kaiser Wilhelm II .
After returning to Canada, he taught at the Conservatoire national in Montreal and at the Ottawa Conservatory . In 1907 he met Alexander Scriabin in New York, who invited him to Europe. He stayed for some time in Berlin, where he worked with Teresa Carreño and was then a student of Scriabin in Brussels. He also gave concerts in London and Germany.
After his return to Canada he devoted himself to promoting Scriabin's work in Canada. He later trusted him to read the original manuscripts of the Poem of Ecstasy and Sonata No. 5 at. From 1926 to 1935 he taught at the École Vincent d'Indy . His students included Hélène Baillargeon , Morris Davis , Gérald Desmarais , Hector Gratton , Djane Lavoie-Herz , Antonio Létourneau , Marie-Thérèse Paquin , Wilfrid Pelletier and Bernard Pinsonneault .
Many of La Liberté's works have remained unfinished. His opera Soeur Béatrice is only available as a piano reduction and was only performed in concert in excerpts by the tenor Rodolphe Plamondon . His Passacaille et choeur final for piano, organ, orchestra and choir is also unfinished . A cycle of songs based on poems from La Chanson d'Eve by Charles Van Lerberghe , on the other hand, was completed and performed many times. He also composed piano and violin works, string quartets and folk song arrangements, some of which appeared in the Recueil de chants populaires du Canada collection (Paris 1925).
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- La Liberté, Alfred , Encyclopédie de la musique au Canada, 2011
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| SURNAME | La Liberté, Alfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | La Liberté, Joseph-François Alfred (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian composer, pianist and music educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu , Quebec |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1952 |
| Place of death | Montreal |