Magdeleine Martin

Magdeleine Martin (born August 28, 1921 in Montreal ; † May 12, 2015 there ) was a Canadian pianist and music teacher .

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Magdeleine Martin was born in Montreal, Canada, in August 1921. She was one of seven daughters of the organist , pianist and music teacher Alphonse Martin and his wife, the organist Corinne Boisvert (1887–1961). Her parents occasionally performed together in concerts. Her sisters Gilberte (1910–1999), Marcelle (1917–2014) and Raymonde (* 1923) also chose professions in the field of music and worked as musicians and music teachers.

Magdeleine Martin received piano lessons from her older sister Gilberte , and organ and harmony lessons from Georges-Émile Tanguay . In 1943 she was admitted to the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec , where she studied with Isidor Philipp (piano) and Joseph Bonnet (organ). Then she sat from 1948 to 1953 their training in France continues and earned several diplomas at the Conservatory in Paris . There she studied analysis with Olivier Messiaen , piano with Blanche Bascourret de Gueraldi , theory with Simone Plé-Caussade and musicology with Alexis Roland-Manuel and Marcel Beaufils .

After returning to Canada, Martin worked as a music teacher for three decades. From 1953 to 1973 she taught music history, analysis and theory at the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec and from 1973 to 1984 music theory at the Conservatoire de Musique du Montréal . At Radio Canada and French-language radio station CKAC their concerts have been broadcast.

Magdeleine Martin died in May 2015 after a serious illness at the age of 93. A few months earlier, as usual, she had attended a concert accompanied by her 92-year-old sister Raymonde. The funeral services took place on May 16, 2015 in the Saint-Viateur d'Outremont church in the Outremont district of Montreal . In the newspaper report about her death she is honored in the daily newspaper La Presse as “ Doyenne our musical world” ( French “doyenne de notre monde musical” ).

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1. ↑ ^{a b c} Magdeleine Martin ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Décès de Magdeleine Martin - Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec. In: conservatoire.gouv.qc.ca. Retrieved October 9, 2017 (French).