Victoria Cartier

Victoria Cartier ( Prudença Victorine Cartier , born April 4, 1867 in Sorel , Québec , † January 1, 1955 in Montreal ) was a Canadian organist, pianist and music teacher.

Life and musical career

Cartier was trained by the Sisters of Notre Dame in her hometown and was a piano and organ student with Romain-Octave Pelletier . She then worked as a piano teacher and organist at the Church of St-Pierre. In 1896 she went to Paris where she studied organ with Eugène Gigout , piano with Élie Delaborde , music theory with Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray and music education with Hortense Parent and met Théodore Dubois , Raoul Pugno and Camille Saint-Saëns .

After her return to Canada in 1898, she founded the Paris-Montréal piano school in Montreal , where she implemented the teaching methods learned in France. She also taught at the Villa-Maria Convent and the Institut pédagogique de Westmount . Her students included u. a. Alfred Lamoureux , Jean Leduc , Éviola Plouffe and Esther Wayland .

In addition to teaching, Cartier continued to work as an organist. In 1898 she played the Canadian premiere of Rhapsodie sur des airs canadiens , which Gigout had dedicated to her, at Karn Hall . She was the organist of the Church of St-Louis-de-France , later the Church of St-Viateur d'Outremont , where she inaugurated the new Casavant organ in 1913 , and finally the Church of Immaculée-Conception .

Victoria Cartier died in Montreal on January 1, 1955 at the age of 87.