Joseph Fournier de Belleval

Joseph Fournier de Belleval (* 1892 ; † March 1945 in Contrecœur ) was a Canadian singer (baritone) and singing teacher.

Live and act

Belleval's career as a singer began in Québec, where he appeared in L'Accordée de village in 1917 under the direction of Omer Létourneau and in Robert Planquette's operetta RIP in 1918 . In 1919 he played the Macroton in L'Amour médecin at the Knights of Columbus Hall on the side of Ulysse Paquin . In Omer Létourneau's operetta Vive la Canadienne he appeared in 1924 at the Knights of Columbus Hall and the Palais Montcalm in Québec.

With Honoré Vaillancourt's Société canadienne d'opérette he played roles in Le carillon de Saint-Arlon (1924), Rêve de valse (1924), La cocarde de Mimi Pinson (1925), Ordre de l'empereur (1925), Les cloches de Corneville (1926), Le beau voyage (1926), Le jongleur de Notre-Dame (1928) and La dernière valse (1929). With Paul Trépanier he appeared in 1927 in Adolphe Adams Si j'étais roi , and with Conrad Gauthier in 1932 in Les cloches de Corneville .

In the studios of Columbia Records Bellaval recorded 24 tracks in 1921 and 1922, including pieces from Parisian variety programs of the time and some lyrical works by Luigi Denza and Barbirolli. Two years later he wrote another twelve songs here, and he recorded another twelve in 1925 at His Master's Voice in Montreal. Between 1926 and 1928 more than fifty French-language recordings were made at Columbia.

From 1922 Belleval worked for the magazine La Musique , and in the 1920s he also ran a singing school in Montreal. He ended his musical career in the mid-1930s and worked as a retailer until his death in 1945.

Web links

• Library and Archives Canada - The Virtual Gramophone - Joseph Fournier de Belleval