Maurice Dela

Maurice Dela , actually Albert Phaneuf (born September 9, 1919 in Montreal , † April 28, 1978 in Verdun (Montreal) ) was a Canadian composer, organist and pianist.

Life

Dela was a student of Raoul Paquet and studied from 1943 to 1947 at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec with Séverin Moisse and Claude Champagne music theory and composition and then orchestration with Leo Sowerby in Chicago and Jean-Josaphat Gagnier in Montreal.

From 1951 to 1965 he worked as arranger and composer at the CBC , then until 1978 as director and head of music lessons at the André Laurendeau School . From 1973 to 1978 he also taught orchestration at the Université du Québec à Montréal and was organist at the Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs church in Verdun (Montreal).

Dela composed orchestral and chamber music , organ, piano and choral works as well as folk song arrangements . In 1947 he received a prize from the Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada (CAPAC) for the Petite Suite maritime , and his first string quartet was awarded by the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers' Associations (CFMTA).

Works

Ballad for orchestra, 1945
Sonatina , 1945
Concerto for piano and orchestra, 1946
Petit Suite maritime , 1947
Dans tous les cantons 1949
Ronde , 1949
Le chat, la belette et le petit lapin .. , 1950
Les Fleurs de Glais , 1951
Scherzo , 1952
Adagio , 1956
String Quartet No. 1 , 1960
Projection , 1966
Symphony No. 1 , 1970
Symphony No. 2 'Concertante' , 1972
Tryptique , 1973
Suite 437 , 1977
String Quartet No. 2 , 1963
10 Bagatelles , 1975
Gratifications I-IV , 1976

Web links

Biography on Canadian Music Center

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Isabelle Panneton: Maurice Dela ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia . December 16, 2013. Retrieved September 3, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Dela, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Phaneuf, Albert (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian composer, organist and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 9, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Montreal
DATE OF DEATH	April 28, 1978
Place of death	Verdun

[TCE-1] Isabelle Panneton: Maurice Dela ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia . December 16, 2013. Retrieved September 3, 2018.