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.
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SURNAME | Cartier, Victoria |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cartier, Prudença Victorine |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian organist and music teacher |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1867 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sorel , Quebec |
DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 1955 |
Place of death | Montreal |