Gaston Dethier
Gaston Marie Dethier (born April 19, 1875 in Liège , † May 26, 1958 in New York City , New York ) was a Belgian- American organist and composer.
Life
Dethier was the eldest of seven sons of the composition teacher at the Liège Conservatory, Emile Detier . He was a student of Alexandre Guilmant's organ and became an organist at St. Jacques at the age of eleven . At the Liège Conservatory he received first prizes in the subjects of organ, piano, harmony and fugue.
He came to the United States at the age of 19. Until 1907 he was organist at St. Xavier in New York. In 1905 Frank Damrosch brought him to the New York Institute of Musical Art as organ teacher . After Carl Friedberg left in 1918, he also became a piano teacher here.
His organ pieces Christmas and Aria (1899) became famous . One of his brothers was the violinist Edouard Detier .
literature
- Andrea Olmstead: Juilliard: a history , University of Illinois Press, 2002, ISBN 0-252-07106-9 , pp. 49 f.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Dethier, Gaston |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dethier, Gaston Marie (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian-American organist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liege |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1958 |
| Place of death | New York City , New York |