Arthur Letondal

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Arthur Joseph Auguste Letondal (born April 30, 1869 in Montreal ; † May 12, 1956 there ) was a Canadian organist , pianist , music teacher and composer .

Life

Arthur Letondal received a diploma from the Académie de musique du Québec after studying with his father Paul Letondal and then taught for several years at the Collège Ste-Marie . He lived in Europe from 1890 to 1894. Here he first studied piano with Antoine François Marmontel and harmony with Antoine-Barthélémy Taudou at the Paris Conservatory . He later went to the Brussels Conservatory , where he worked under the direction of the organist Alphonse Mailly and studied with Édouard Samuel , Arthur De Greef and Ferdinand-Hubert Kufferath .

After his return to Montreal, Letondal worked as an organist at the Église des Pères du Saint-Sacrement from 1894 to 1900 , succeeded Dominique Ducharme at the Église du Gesù until 1923 and finally at the St-Jacques-le-Majeur Cathedral until 1949 , where he succeeded Romain-Octave Pelletier .

He also taught at the Conservatory of the Canadian Artistic Society from 1895 to 1900 , from 1904 to 1910 at McGill University and from 1943 at the Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec . His students included Léo-Pol Morin , Germaine Malépart , Paul Doyon , Alice Ste-Marie , Rita Savard , Gilberte Martin , Marcelle Martin , Clermont Pépin , Gabriel Cusson , Isabelle Delorme , Henri Gagnon , Lucien Jolicoeur , Jules Lamontagne , Conrad Letendre , Raoul Paquet , Éviola Plouffe , Paul Pratt , Caroline Racicot , Émiliano Renaud and Georges-Émile Tanguay . He was a member and several times president of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique in Paris and honorary president of the Schola Cantorum in Montreal.

Letondal composed piano and organ works as well as sacred choral music. He has written articles for musical magazines on Calixa Lavallée , Charles Waugh Sabatier and Ernest Gagnon .

Works (selection)

  • Gavotte for piano, 1895
  • Trois pièces de genre for piano, 1897
  • Mazurka sentimentale for piano, 1899
  • Berceuse for piano
  • Sarabande for piano
  • Danse Moyen Âge for piano
  • Prelude grave for organ, 1924
  • Offertoire for organ, 1925
  • Toccata for organ
  • Tantum ergo

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SURNAME Letondal, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Letondal, Arthur Joseph Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian organist, music educator and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1956
Place of death Montreal