Joseph Bonnet

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Joseph Élie Georges Marie Bonnet (born March 17, 1884 in Bordeaux , † August 2, 1944 at Rimouski ) was a French-Canadian organist, composer and music teacher.

Bonnet was organist at Saint-Nicolas from 1898, later at Saint-Michel in Bordeaux. From 1901 he studied organ in Paris with Charles Tournemire , Alexandre Guilmant and Louis Vierne . In 1906 he received first prize in the organ subject at the Conservatoire de Paris .

From 1906 to 1939 he was organist at the Church of St-Eustache in Paris. Between 1906 and 1914 he traveled as an organ virtuoso through France and all of Europe and worked with instrumentalists such as Eugène Ysaÿe and Jacques Thibaud and conductors such as Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht , Arthur Nikisch and Gustav Mahler . At the French premiere of Mahler's 2nd Symphony in 1910 he played the organ part. In 1911 he succeeded Guilmant as organist at the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire .

After the First World War, he traveled through the USA and Canada. In 1920 he inaugurated the organ of the St Stanislas Church in Montreal and from 1921 was a teacher at the Eastman School of Music for several years . In 1923 he founded the Institut Grégorien , of which he became president. In 1937 he succeeded Vierne as organ professor at the École César Franck in Paris. From 1943 he taught at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec , where Conrad Bernier , Henri Gagnon , Magdelaine and Marcelle Martin and D'Alton McLaughlin were among his students.

Works

  • Variations de concert for organ, 1908
  • Ave Maria for four-part mixed choir and organ, 1908
  • Poèmes d'automne for organ, 1908
  • Douze pièces pour grand-orgue, 1st volume , 1909
  • Agnus Dei for three-part choir, baritone and organ, 1910
  • 2ème Ave Maria for voice and organ, 1910
  • à M. l'Abbé Pottier, curé de Notre-Dame de Lourdes à Paris Motet for choir and organ or harmonium, 1910
  • Douze pièces nouvelles pour grand-orgue 2e volume , 1910
  • Pater Noster for tenor and organ
  • Pie Jesu for solo voice and organ
  • Douze pièces pour grand-orgue 3e volume , 1913
  • Chant triste à la mémoire de Joachim Gasquet , 1923

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SURNAME Bonnet, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bonnet, Joseph Élie Georges Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-Canadian composer, organist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Bordeaux
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1944
Place of death at Rimouski