Claude Champagne was a Canadian

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 composer.

Born in Montreal

Montreal

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, Quebec

Quebec

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, he studied violin

Violin

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 with Albert Chamberland

Albert Chamberland

Albert Chamberland was a Canadian violinist, composer, conductor, music producer, and music educator. As a violinist he was highly active as a chamber musician with a number of notable ensembles, including the Beethoven Trio with whom he made some early recordings for His Master's Voice during the...

, organ with Orpha-F. Deveaux

Orpha-F. Deveaux

Orpha-F. Deveaux was an American organist, pianist, and music educator. Born in Saginaw, Michigan, he studied at the New York College of Music with Mat Schmidt and privately in Montreal with Alexis Contant and Percival J. Illsley...

, and piano

Piano

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 with Romain-Octave Pelletier I

Romain-Octave Pelletier I

Romain-Octave Pelletier I was a Canadian organist, pianist, composer, writer on music, and music educator.-Early life and career:...

 and Alexis Contant

Alexis Contant

Joseph Pierre Alexis Contant was a Canadian composer, organist, pianist, and music educator. The first notable Canadian composer to be entirely trained in his native country, he stated "I write not for glory but rather to satisfy an irresistible need." Although he had considerable training as a...

 at the Conservatoire national de musique

Conservatoire national de musique

Conservatoire national de musique was a music conservatory in Montreal, Quebec that was actively providing higher education in music during the first eight decades of the 20th century...

. In 1921 he went straight to Paris

Paris

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 to study music. By then he was drawn into modality

Modality

-Humanities:* In law: the basis of legal argumentation in United States constitutional law* In theology: Modality : the organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations...

, which stayed with him the rest of his life. At his return to Canada he became heavily involved with teaching, notably playing an instrumental role in establishing the Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec

Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec

The Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec is a public network of nine state-subsidised schools offering higher education in music and theatre in Quebec, Canada. The organization was established in 1942 as a branch of the Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec by the...

 in 1942. In 1943 he was appointed the first assistant director of the Montreal Conservatoire. He was attached to the Montreal Catholic School Commission

Montreal Catholic School Commission

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 as co-ordinator of solfége in elementary schools, and he was at the same time professor at the McGill Conservatory. After that he mainly taught many of the country's most promising composers. He died in Montreal in 1965.

His notable students included Jocelyne Binet

Jocelyne Binet

Jocelyne Binet was a Canadian composer, pianist, and music educator. She studied in Montreal and Paris, France, and returned to compose and teach music in Canada.-Biography:...

, Lydia Boucher

Lydia Boucher

Lydia Boucher was a Canadian composer, music educator, and nun. She was active as a composer from 1923–1971, producing several choral works and pieces for solo piano and organ. Most of her works are sacred and many of them were published by such companies as L'Édition Belgo-Canadienne, Musica...

, François Brassard

François Brassard

François Joseph Brassard was a Canadian ethnomusicologist, organist, composer and music teacher.Brassard studied piano with Rolland-Georges Gingras, organ with Omer Létourneau and harmony with Robert Talbot. As a scholarship student of the Académie de musique du Québec he was a student of Léo-Pol...

, Isabelle Delorme

Isabelle Delorme

Isabelle Delorme was a Canadian composer, pianist, and music educator. As a composer, her works are lyrical in nature and follow more traditional ideas of harmony as opposed to the avant-garde music that was in vogue in her day...

, Jean Deslauriers

Jean Deslauriers

Jean Deslauriers was a Canadian conductor, violinist, and composer. As a conductor he had a long and fruitful partnership with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; conducting orchestras for feature films and television and radio programs for more than 40 years...

, Orpha-F. Deveaux

Orpha-F. Deveaux

Orpha-F. Deveaux was an American organist, pianist, and music educator. Born in Saginaw, Michigan, he studied at the New York College of Music with Mat Schmidt and privately in Montreal with Alexis Contant and Percival J. Illsley...

, Roger Matton

Roger Matton

Roger Matton, OC was a Canadian composer, ethnomusicologist, and music educator. As a composer his works are characterized by their association with folklore and folkmusic. In 1965 he was awarded the Prix de la création at the Congrès du spectacle...

, Pierre Mercure

Pierre Mercure

Pierre Mercure is , Canadian composer, TV producer, bassoonist, administrator. Premier prix Harmony, Counterpoint, Deuxième prix bassoon 1949. His main composition teacher was Claude Champagne...

, François Morel

François Morel

François Morel is a Canadian composer, pianist, conductor, and music education. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec in 1994 and was awarded the Prix Denise-Pelletier in 1996...

, Clermont Pépin

Clermont Pépin

Clermont Pépin, was a Canadian pianist, composer and teacher.He was born Jean Joseph Clermont Pépin in Saint-Georges, Quebec in 1926. Pépin studied with influential Canadian composers Claude Champagne and Arnold Walter , and at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia from 1941 to 1944 with...

, Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux

Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux

Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux was a Canadian composer and music educator who played an important role in the contemporary classical music scene of Canada and France from the late 1960s through the mid 1980s...

, Georges Savaria

Georges Savaria

Georges Savaria is a Canadian pianist, composer, ondist, college administrator, and music educator. His compositional output consists of a 1951 piano concerto, several songs and works for solo piano, and music for theatre, television, and radio...

, Robert Turner

Robert Turner (composer)

Robert Comrie Turner is a Canadian composer, radio producer, and music educator. He graduated with a bachelors degree in music from McGill University in 1943. While there he studied with Douglas Clarke and Claude Champagne. He continued his studies briefly at Colorado College in 1947, where he met...

, and Jean Vallerand

Jean Vallerand

Jean Vallerand, CQ was a composer, music critic, violinist, conductor, arts administrator, writer, and music educator from Quebec. As a composer he was active from 1935 to 1969...

.

Works

• Symphonie Gaspésienne
• Fantaisie "J'ai du bon tabac" - for orchestra
• Hercule et Omphale - for orchestra
• La Laurentienne - for orchestra
• Danse Villageoise
• Piano Concerto (Fiesta)
• Suite Canadienne - for choir and orchestra
• Berceuse - for small orchestra
• Prière - for organ
• Quadrilha Brasileira for Piano (1942)
• Many choral pieces

External links

• http://www.collectionscanada.ca/champagne/index-e.html