Anaïs Allard-Rousseau

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Anaïs Allard-Rousseau , OC (born October 31, 1904 in Sainte-Monique de Nicolet , Québec , Canada as Anaïs Allard ; † February 15, 1971 in Fort-de-France , Martinique ) was a Canadian music educator and social activist .

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Anaïs Allard-Rousseau was born as Anaïs Allard on October 31, 1904 in Sainte-Monique de Nicolet in the Canadian province of Québec. When she was eight years old, her brother Jean Victor Allard , who would later become an officer and general in command of the Canadian Army and Chief of Defense Staff of the Armed Forces of Canada , was born. After successfully completing school, she studied music, pedagogy, philosophy and botany and successfully completed these studies. In 1926 she married Arthur Rousseau (1900-1994), who was over four years her senior and who was mayor of Trois-Rivières for some time in the 1940s and with whom she was to have seven children. Because of the marriage she moved to Trois-Rivières and worked there as a music teacher. In 1942 - her husband was in his second year in office as mayor of the city - she founded Les Rendez-vous artistiques , a concert company that engaged internationally known artists such as Raoul Jobin and Witold Małcużyński and founded the André-Mathieu Club , through which she had a series of concerts for young audiences.

Furthermore, she organized some concerts for soldiers during the Second World War , with whom she also kept correspondence. In 1949 she was involved in founding Jeunesses Musicales Canada (JMC), an organization for the musical promotion of young people, which was initiated by Gilles Lefebvre (1922-2001). From 1954 to 1956 she served as president of this organization and was a delegate of JMC regularly taking part in international events. At the same time, from 1952 to 1955, she was Vice President of the international association of Jeunesses Musicales, which was established in 1945 . She was also involved in the establishment of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Trois-Rivières in 1964. She also gave courses in music and fine arts at the École normal du Christ-Roi (1956-1964), at the Center d'Études Universitaires de Trois-Rivières (1963), and at the École normal Maurice-Duplessis (1967), the are all in Trois-Rivières.

After she had been appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 1969, Allard-Rousseau died on February 15, 1971 at the age of 66 while staying in Fort-de-France in the French overseas department of Martinique . Just a few weeks after her death, on March 29, 1971, the concert hall of the cultural center of Trois-Rivières was renamed Salle Anaïs-Allard-Rousseau in her honor . Anaïs Allard-Rousseau's archive is now in the Archives Center of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec . Your archive contains almost 9500 photos, seven films, 20 magnetic tapes, and around 20.50 running meters of text documents with professional and private records and documents.

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  1. ↑ Music in Trois-Rivières in The Canadian Encyclopedia , accessed June 13, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Archive of Anaïs Allard-Rousseau in the archive center of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (French), accessed on June 13, 2019
  3. ^ A b Youth and Music Canada / Jeunesses musicales of Canada in The Canadian Encyclopedia , accessed June 13, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Allard-Rousseau, Anaïs
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allard, Anaïs (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian music educator and social activist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Sainte-Monique de Nicolet , Quebec , Canada
DATE OF DEATH 15th February 1971
Place of death Fort-de-France , Martinique