Georges-Émile Tanguay

Georges-Émile Tanguay (born June 5, 1893 in Québec , † November 24, 1964 ibid) was a Canadian organist, music teacher and composer.

Tanguy initially took lessons in Quebec with Joseph-Arthur Bernier , Arthur Letondal and Romain Pelletier . From 1912 to 1914 he studied organ with Louis Vierne and harmony with Félix Fourdrain in Paris . During a renewed stay in Paris in 1920 he studied the organ with Édouard Mignan , harmony and counterpoint with Georges Caussade and piano with Simone Plé-Caussade and attended Vincent d'Indy's composition class at the Schola Cantorum . He then took organ lessons with Pietro Yon and Gaston Dethier in New York.

In 1925 he returned to Canada and became organist at the De l'Immaculée-Conception church in Montreal. From 1943 he taught harmony at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec and at the Université de Montréal ; there he later gave organ lessons. His students included u. a. Marcel Beaulieu , Jeannine Bégin , Léon Bernier , Maurice Blackburn , Marcel Laurencelle , the sisters Gilberte , Marcelle and Magdeleine Martin , Lucien Martin , Paul-Émile McCaughan , André Mérineau , Renée Morisset and Micheline Tessier .

Tanguay's little extensive compositional work includes piano and organ pieces, some choral works, an orchestral arrangement and an original orchestral work.

Works

• Gavotte Pompadour for piano
• Air de ballet for piano, around 1912
• Menuet for piano, around 1912
• Scherzo-Valse for piano, around 1912
• Sarabande for piano, around 1912
• Causerie for piano, around 1912
• Gavotte et Musette for piano, around 1912
• Cor Jesu for mixed choir, 1912
• O Salutaris for mixed choir, 1912
• Pavane for piano, 1914
• Souvenir for cello and piano, around 1914
• Romance for violin, harp and orchestra, 1915
• Graduel et Trait for three male voices, 1917
• Cor Jesu for mixed choir
• Prayer / Prière for organ, around 1918
• Hommage à Couperin for clarinet, bassoon and string quintet, around 1920
• Trois pièces brèves for piano, around 1920
  • Homage to Couperin ,
  • Apaisement (also for wind quintet and harp)
  • Danseuses devant Aphrodite (also for orchestra)
• Song for organ 1924, for string quartet 1930, for string orchestra 1947
• Pavane , 1925

Web links

• Lucie K. Morisset: Tanguay, Georges-Émile . In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography . tape 15: 1921-1930 . University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2005, ISBN 0-8020-9087-7 ( English , French ).
• Georges-Émile Tanguay ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia .
• Georges-Émile Tanguay: Composer Showcase Canadian Music Center