Marvin Duchow

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Marvin Duchow (born June 10, 1914 in Montreal , † May 24, 1979 ibid) was a Canadian composer, musicologist and teacher.

Duchow studied music theory from 1933 to 1937 with Claude Champagne at McGill University , then until 1939 at the Curtis Institute with Rosario Scalero and Samuel Chotzinoff and finally in 1942 at New York University . From 1944 to 1978 he taught at McGill University, since 1955 as head of the music theory department; between 1943 and 1949 at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec . His students included Kenneth Gilbert , Hugh Hartwell , Carl Little , Roger Matton , Pierre Mercure , Dorothy Morton , Wayne Riddell , Robert Silverman , Gregory Butler , Frederick A. Hall , Jacob Siskind , Gerrit Tetenburg , Nadia Turbide , Claire Versailles and Alan Belkin , George Little and Alejandro Enrique Planchart who had private lessons with him.

Duchow was an expert on Renaissance music and 18th century French music. From 1957 to 1962 he was co-editor of the Canadian Music Journal and since 1976 of the Journal of the American Society for Jewish Music Musica Judaica .

He composed works for orchestra and chamber music ensemble, organ and piano pieces as well as vocal music and published a number of musicological publications. For Gaston Allaire's book The Theory of Hexachords, Solmization and the Modal System, he did the final revision.

In 1980, the McGill University music library was named the Marvin Duchow Music Library . On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, McGill University and the American Society for Jewish Music held a memorial concert in Pollack Hall .

Works

  • Songs of My Youth , song cycle, 1930
  • Variations on a Chorale for orchestra, 1936
  • For a Rose's Sake , 1938
  • Motet , 1938
  • Seven Chorale Preludes in Traditional Style for Organ, 1939
  • Quartet in C Minor , 1939, 1942
  • A Carol Choir , 1943
  • Badinerie for piano and orchestra, 1947
  • Chant intime ( Prelude ) for piano, 1947
  • Sonata for piano, 1955
  • Movement for Strings ( Largamente ), 1972
  • Three Songs of the Holocaust / Trois Chants de l'Holocaust on German texts by Nelly Sachs , 1977

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SURNAME Duchow, Marvin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian composer, musicologist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1979
Place of death Montreal