Roméo Beaudry

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Roméo Beaudry

Louis-Roméo Beaudry (born February 25, 1882 in Montreal , † May 7, 1932 in Outremont ) was a Canadian composer, music producer, publisher and critic.

Beaudry attended the Séminaire de Québec until 1900 and then worked at the National Bank before becoming the partner of his father who ran the Quebec branch of the Willis Piano Company . In 1912 he became a representative of the Starr Sales Company in Montreal, where he also wrote music reviews for the newspaper La Patrie , and from 1915 he oversaw the francophone part of Columbia Gramophone in New York and organized recordings by more than a dozen Quebec artists, including Jean -Marie Magnan , Joseph-Henri Thibodeau , Hector Pellerin , François-Xavier Mercier , Damase DuBuisson , Alfred Nohcor and Honoré Vaillancourt .

When the Starr Piano Company from Richmond, Indiana, expanded into Canada in 1918 , Beaudry became General Manager of the Starr Company of Canada . In 1920 he founded Starr Phonograph of Quebec in Montreal, where he made almost 700 recordings of various musical genres a. a. with J. Hervey Germain , Hector Pellerin , Arthur Lapierre and Alex J. Bédard , Isidore Soucy , Ovila Légaré , Eugène Daigneault , Alfred Montmarquette , Placide Morency , Hercule Lavoie , Albert Marier , Charles Marchand , Rodolphe Plamondon and Alexandre Desmarteaux . In 1929 he engaged the singer Mary Bolduc , whose song La cuisinière alone sold 10,000 times. He also recorded skits with vaudeville artists such as Juliette Béliveau , Rose Rey-Duzil , Alex J. Bédard, Arthur Lapierre, and Athanase Beaudry . He also founded the music publisher Radio Music Publisher / Éditions Radio .

Beaudry was also successful as a composer. In addition to more than 150 adaptations of English-language songs, around 75 of his original compositions were recorded on record, including titles such as L'amour se souvient (text Hercule Lavoie ), Ne fais jamais pleurer ta mère (text Hercule Lavoie), Les baisers sont les fleurs de l ' amour (text Charles-Émile Brodeur ), Alouette, n'aie pas peur de moi (text Albert Marier ), Laissez parler les fleurs (text Jean Cartier ) and Votre avion va-t-il au paradis? (Text Odilon Rochon ).

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SURNAME Beaudry, Roméo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beaudry, Louis-Roméo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian composer, music critic, producer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1932
Place of death Outremont