A guide to Canada's composers
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  Adaskin, Murray (b. 1906) |   composer |
  Agostini, Giuseppe (b. 1890 d. 1971) |   cantante de opera, conductor |
  Aitkin, Robert Morris (b. 1939) |   flute, composer |
  Ambrose, Paul (b. 1868 d. 1941) |   church organist, composer |
  Anderson, William Henry (b. 1882 d. 1955) |   composer, choir master |
  Anger, Joseph Humfrey (b. 1862 d. 1913) |   teacher, composer |
  Anhalt, Istvan (b. 1919) |   composer, teacher |
  Applebaum, Louis (b. 1918) |   composer |
  Aragon, Alexandre (b. 1889) |   organ, choir master |
  Archer, Violet (b. 1913) |   composer, piano |
  Assaly, Edmund Phillip (b. 1920 d. 1983) |   music director, piano |
  Auria, Francesco (Mariano) (b. 1841 d. 1913) |   conductor, composer |
  Bales, Gerald Albert (b. 1919) |   organ, choir master |
  Bancroft, Henry Hugh (b. 1904) |   organ, choir master |
  Barclay, Robert L. (b. 1918 d. 1980) |   composer, writer |
  Barnes, Milton (b. 1931) |   composer |
  Bartley, Ewart Andrew (b. 1909 d. 1987) |   composer |
  Bayley, Robert Charlton (b. 1913) |   music educator, organ |
  Beckwith, John (b. 1927) |   composer, critic |
  Bedard, Louis (b. 1906) |   piano, organ |
  Beecroft, Norma Marian (b. 1934) |   composer, administrator |
  Bell, Hugh Poynter (b. 1872 d. 1961) |   critic, composer |
  Bell, Leslie Richard (b. 1906 d. 1962) |   choir conductor, music educator |
  Belleau, Dantes (b. 1897 d. 1960) |   piano, organ |
  Berlin, Boris (b. 1907) |   piano teacher, composer |
  Bernier, Conrad (b. 1904) |   piano, organ |
  Bernier, Joseph Arthur (b. 1877 d. 1944) |   organ, piano |
  Bertrand, Felix-Routhier (b. 1909 d. 1978) |   organ, piano |
  Betts, Lorne M. (b. 1918) |   teacher, choir conductor |
  Bissell, Keith Warren (b. 1912) |   composer, music educator |
  Blachford, Frank Edward (b. 1879 d. 1957) |   violin, teacher |
  Blackburn, Maurice (b. 1914 d. 1988) |   composer |
  Blomfield-Holt, Patricia (b. 1910) |   composer, teacher |
  Boivin, Maurice F. (b. 1920) |   composer |
  Borre, Cesar (b. 1880 d. 1950) |   conductor, composer |
  Bottenberg, Wolfgang (b. 1930) |   composer |
  Bouchard, Victor (b. 1926) |   piano, administrator |
  Branscombe, Gena (b. 1881 d. 1977) |   music educator, composer |
  Brassard, Francois Joseph (b. 1908 d. 1976) |   composer |
  Brewer, George MacKenzie (b. 1889 d. 1947) |   organ, piano |
  Broome, William Edward (b. 1868 d. 1932) |   conductor, organ |
  Brott, Alexander (b. 1915) |   composer, conductor |
  Brown, Allanson Gordon Yeoman (b. 1902) |   organ, choir master |
  Buckley, Robert (b. 1946) |   composer |
  Buczynski, Walter (b. 1933) |   composer, piano |
  Cabena, Barrie [Harold Barrie] (b. 1933 a. 1957) |   organ, composer |
  Cable, Howard Reid (b. 1920) |   conductor, arranger |
  Cadoret, Charlotte (Soeur St. Jean-du-Sacre Coeur) (b. 1908) |   piano, composer |
  Cadzow, Dorothy Forrest (b. 1916) |   composer, arranger |
  Caron, Allan (b. 1898) |   piano, organ |
  Caron, Joseph Charles Eugene (b. 1900) |   organ, composer |
  Caron-Legris, Albertine (b. 1906 d. 1972) |   piano, composer |
  Champagne, Claude (b. 1891 d. 1965) |   composer |
  Charpentier, Gabriel (b. 1925) |   composer, poet |
  Chatillon, Octave Hardy (b. 1831 d. 1906) |   violin, piano |
  Cherney, Brian (b. 1942) |   musicologist, composer |
  Chong, John (b. 1953) |   composer |
  Ciamaga, Gustave (b. 1930) |   composer |
  Claman, Dolores Olga (b. 1927) |   piano, composer |
  Clarke, Douglas Dean (b. 1893 d. 1962) |   conductor, music educator |
  Clarke, Frederick Robert Charles (b. 1931) |   organ, choir master |
  Clarke, James Paton (b. 1807 d. 1877) |   composer, teacher |
  Clements, Peter (b. 1940) |   teacher, composer |
  Codman, Stephen (b. 1796 d. 1852) |   organ |
  Collier, Ron [Ronald William] (b. 1930) |   composer, bandleader |
  Collingwood, Arthur (b. 1880 d. 1952) |   music educator, conductor |
  Contant, Alexis [Joseph Pierre Alexis] (b. 1858 d. 1918) |   composer, organ |
  Cooper, Irvin (b. 1900 d. 1971) |   composer |
  Coulthard, Jean (b. 1908) |   composer |
  Coutts, George James (b. 1888 d. 1962) |   organ, piano |
  Couture, Guillaume (b. 1851 d. 1915) |   composer, organ |
  Crawford, Paul (Duncan) (b. 1947) |   composer, radio producer |
  Crawford, Thomas James (b. 1877 d. 1955) |   composer, organ |
  Crepault, Napoleon (b. 1849 d. 1906) |   organ, piano |
  Dahlgren, David (b. 1947) |   composer |
  Dainty, Ernest Herbert (b. 1891 d. 1947) |   piano, organ |
  Daveluy, Raymond [Joseph Eugene Raymond Marie] (b. 1926) |   organ, composer |
  Decoursey, Ralph (b. 1918) |   piano, composer |
  Dela, Maurice (b. 1919 d. 1978) |   composer, organ |
  Descarries, Joseph Ernest Auguste (b. 1896 d. 1958) |   piano, organ |
  Dessane, Marie-Hippolyte Antonin [Antoine] (b. 1826 d. 1873) |   organ, piano |
  Dichmount, William (b. 1882 d. 1943) |   piano, organ |
  Dolin, Samuel Joseph (b. 1917) |   composer |
  Drynan, Margaret (b. 1915) |   teacher, composer |
  Duchow, Marvin (b. 1914 d. 1979) |   musicologist, composer |
  Eaton, Richard Stephen (b. 1914 d. 1968) |   organ, choir master |
  Eckhardt-Gramatte, Sophie-Carmen (b. 1899 d. 1974) |   composer, piano |
  Egener, Frederick Tristam (b. 1886 d. 1973) |   organ, composer |
  Egerton, Arthur Henry (b. 1891 d. 1957) |   organ, choir master |
  Eggleston, Anne Elizabeth (b. 1934) |   composer |
  Evans, Robert (b. 1933) |   composer |
  Fiala, George Joseph (b. 1922) |   composer, piano |
  Fisher, Arthur Elwell (b. 1848 d. 1912) |   music educator, composer |
  Fleming, Gordon Charles James (b. 1903 d. 1959) |   organ, piano |
  Fleming, Robert James Berkeley (b. 1921 d. 1976) |   composer, violin |
  Forsyth, Wesley Octavius (b. 1863 d. 1937) |   piano, composer |
  Fortier, Marc (b. 1940) |   composer, arranger |
  Fox, George (b. 1911) |   composer |
  France, William Edward (b. 1912 d. 1985) |   organ, composer |
  Freedman, Harry (b. 1922) |   composer |
  Fricker, Herbert Austin (b. 1868 d. 1943) |   choir trainer, conductor |
  Friedlander, Ernst Peter (b. 1906 d. 1966) |   cello, composer |
  Gagnier, Josephat Jean (b. 1885 d. 1949) |   conductor, composer |
  Gagnon, Alain (b. 1938) |   composer |
  Garant, Serge (b. 1929 d. 1986) |   composer, conductor |
  Gayfer, James McDonald (b. 1916) |   conductor, composer |
  Gellman, Steven (b. 1947) |   composer, piano |
  George, Graham Elias (b. 1912) |   composer, teacher |
  Giron, Arsenio (b. 1932) |   composer |
  Glick, Srul Irving (b. 1934) |   composer, radio producer |
  Godden, Reginald (b. 1905 d. 1987) |   piano, teacher |
  Goldberg, Theo (b. 1921) |   composer, teacher |
  Gratton, J.J. Hector (b. 1900 d. 1970) |   composer, conductor |
  Ham, Albert William (b. 1858 d. 1940 a. 1897-1935) |   organ, choir conductor |
  Hamer, Harold Spensley (b. 1900 d. 1980) |   music educator, organ |
  Harmer, Daniel Jevon (b. 1911 d. 1989) |   composer, arranger |
  Harriss, Charles (Albert Edwin) (b. 1862 d. 1929 a. 1910) |   composer, impresario |
  Hartwell, Hugh Kenneth (b. 1945) |   composer, teacher |
  Hawkins, John (b. 1944) |   arranger, banjo |
  Haworth, Frank (b. 1905 a. 1956) |   composer, music educator |
  Healey, Derek Edward (b. 1936) |   composer, organ |
  Hetu, Jacques (Joseph Robert) (b. 1938) |   composer, teacher |
  Hewlett, William Henry (b. 1873 d. 1940) |   teacher, organ |
  Higgin, Clifford (b. 1876 d. 1951) |   organ, choir master |
  Hill, Lewis Eugene (b. 1909 d. 1976) |   organ, choir master |
  Hodkinson, Sydney Phillip (b. 1934) |   composer, conductor |
  Hone, Jules (b. 1833 d. 1913) |   violin, teacher |
  Huse, Peter (b. 1938) |   composer, poet |
  Jaque, Rhene (b. 1918) |   composer, violin |
  Jehin-Prume, Frantz (b. 1839 d. 1899 a. 1885) |   violin, composer |
  Joachim, Otto (b. 1910 a. 1949) |   composer, viol |
  Jodoin, Laurent (b. 1911) |   piano, composer |
  Johnston, Richard (b. 1917) |   teacher, administrator |
  Jones, Kelsey [Herbert Kelsey] (b. 1922) |   composer |
  Jones, Trevor Morgan (b. 1899) |   piano, composer |
  Kalnins, Janis [John] (b. 1904) |   composer, conductor |
  Karam, Frederick (b. 1926 d. 1978) |   composer, organ |
  Kasemets, Udo (b. 1919) |   composer, teacher |
  Keetbaas, Dirk (b. 1921 a. 1928) |   flute, record producer |
  Kemp, Walter Herbert (b. 1938) |   musicologist, organ |
  Kenins, Talivaldis (b. 1919) |   composer, teacher |
  Kent, Ada Jane Fairlina (b. 1888 d. 1969) |   piano, organ |
  Klein, Lothar (b. 1932) |   composer |
  Kolinski, Mieczyslaw (b. 1901 d. 1981) |   composer, piano |
  Kunits, Luigi [Ludwig Paul Maria] (b. 1870 d. 1931) |   conductor, violin |
  Kunz, Alfred Leopold (b. 1929) |   composer, conductor |
  Labelle, Charles (b. 1849 d. 1902) |   organ, composer |
  Laliberte, Joseph Francois Albert (b. 1882 d. 1952) |   piano, composer |
  Lapierre, Eugene (b. 1899 d. 1970) |   organ, teacher |
  Laufer, Edward (b. 1938) |   composer, teacher |
  Lavallee, Calixa (b. 1842 d. 1891) |   composer, piano |
  Lavallee-Smith, Louis Alphonse (b. 1873 d. 1912) |   organ, teacher |
  Le Caine, Hugh (b. 1914 d. 1977) |   scientist, composer |
  Letondal, Arthur John (b. 1869 d. 1956) |   piano, organ |
  Lord, Frederic (b. 1886 d. 1945) |   choral director, teacher |
  Lorrain, Denis (b. 1948) |   composer |
  Lucas, Clarence Reynolds (b. 1866 d. 1947) |   composer, conductor |
  Maclean, Quentin (Stuart Morvaren) (b. 1896 d. 1962) |   organ, composer |
  MacMillan, Ernest (Alexander Campbell) (b. 1893 d. 1973) |   conductor, composer |
  MacNutt, Walter Louis (b. 1910 d. 1996) |   composer, organ |
  Major, Douglas (b. 1914 d. 1969) |   composer, organ |
  Mann, Leslie Douglas (b. 1923 d. 1977) |   composer, clarinet |
  Mather, Bruce [James Bruce] (b. 1939) |   composer, conductor |
  Mathieu, Andre [Rene Andre Rodolphe] (b. 1929 d. 1968) |   piano, composer |
  Mathieu, Rodolphe (b. 1890 d. 1962) |   composer, teacher |
  Matton, Roger (b. 1929) |   composer |
  McCauley, William Alexander (b. 1917) |   composer |
  McIntyre, Margaret (b. 1905 d. 1952) |   violin, composer |
  McIntyre, Paul Poirier (b. 1931) |   composer, piano |
  McMullin, Robert Wesley (b. 1921) |   composer, arranger |
  McPhee, Colin (Carhart) (b. 1900 d. 1964) |   composer, ethnomusicologist |
  Meek, Kenneth (b. 1908 d. 1976) |   organ, choir master |
  Mercure, Pierre (b. 1927 d. 1966) |   composer |
  Mignault, Alfred Joseph Edouard (b. 1895 d. 1961) |   organ, composer |
  Mills-Cockell, John (b. 1943) |   composer, synthesizer |
  Miro, Henri (b. 1879 d. 1950) |   composer, conductor |
  Molt, Theodore Frederic (b. 1795 d. 1859) |   teacher |
  Montgomery, William Augustus (b. 1872 d. 1948) |   cast, organ |
  Moore, Ernest Alwyn (b. 1899) |   organ, choir conductor |
  Morawetz, Oskar (b. 1917 a. 1940) |   composer, piano |
  Morel, Francois (d'Assise) (b. 1926) |   composer, musicisti |
  Morin-Labrecque, Albertine Rosalie Odile (b. 1886 d. 1957) |   piano, soprano |
  Morley, Glen (Stewart) (b. 1912) |   conductor, composer |
  Murgatrotd, Vernon (b. 1941) |   composer |
  Needham, Lucien Arthur (b. 1929) |   conductor, teacher |
  Nimmons, Phil [Philip Rista] (b. 1923) |   clarinet, composer |
  O'Neill, Charles (b. 1882 d. 1964) |   composer |
  Papineau-Couture, Jean (b. 1916) |   composer, teacher |
  Pasch, Sylvio (b. 1938) |   composer |
  Patriquin, Donald (b. 1938) |   composer |
  Peacock, Kenneth Howard (b. 1922) |   ethnomusicologist, piano |
  Pedersen, Paul Richard (b. 1935) |   administrator, composer |
  Pelletier, Frederic (b. 1870 d. 1944) |   choir master, critic |
  Pelletier, Romain Octave (b. 1844 d. 1927) |   organ, piano |
  Pentland, Barbara (Lally) (b. 1912) |   composer |
  Pepin, Clermont [Jean-Josephat Clermont] (b. 1926) |   composer, piano |
  Perrault, Michel Brunet (b. 1925) |   conductor, composer |
  Polson, Arthur (Ludwig) (b. 1934) |   violin, composer |
  Prevost, Andre (b. 1934) |   bandmaster, composer |
  Quesnel, Joseph [Louis Joseph Marie] (b. 1746 d. 1809) |   composer, playwright |
  Rae, Allan (b. 1942) |   composer |
  Rathburn, Eldon Davis (b. 1916) |   composer |
  Rea, John (b. 1944) |   composer, teacher |
  Read, Angelo McCallum (b. 1854 d. 1926) |   teacher, composer |
  Reed, William (b. 1859 d. 1945) |   organ, choir master |
  Renaud, Emiliano (b. 1875 d. 1932) |   piano, composer |
  Ridout, Godfrey (b. 1918 d. 1984) |   composer |
  Ringuet, Leon (b. 1858 d. 1932) |   bandmaster, composer |
  Robertson, Eric (b. 1948) |   composer |
  Roff, Joseph (b. 1910) |   composer |
  Rogers, William Keith (b. 1921) |   composer |
  Russell, Welford (Hamilton) (b. 1900 d. 1975) |   surgeon, composer |
  Sabatier, Charles Desire Joseph Wughk (b. 1820 d. 1862) |   piano, composer |
  Saint-Marcoux, Micheline Coulombe (b. 1938 d. 1985) |   composer, teacher |
  Savaria, Georges (b. 1916) |   piano, ondist |
  Schafer, R. Murray [Raymond Murray] (b. 1933) |   composer, writer |
  Schudel, Thomas (b. 1937) |   composer, administrator |
  Sherman, Norman Morris (b. 1926) |   composer, bassoon |
  Silvester, Frederick Caton (b. 1901 d. 1966) |   organ, choir conductor |
  Slater, David Dick (b. 1869 d. 1942) |   organ, teacher |
  Slater, Nick [Nicholas] (b. 1925) |   composer, teacher |
  Smith, Leo [Joseph Leo] (b. 1881 d. 1952) |   composer, cello |
  Somers, Harry (Stuart) (b. 1925) |   composer, piano |
  Southam, Ann (b. 1937) |   composer, teacher |
  Surdin, Morris (b. 1914 d. 1979) |   composer, arranger |
  Symonds, Norman Alec (b. 1920) |   composer, clarinet |
  Szczeniowski, Boleslaw (b. 1898 a. 1942) |   composer |
  Tanguay, Georges-Emile (b. 1893 d. 1964) |   composer, organ |
  Tardif, Georges Alfred (b. 1903 d. 1978) |   |
  Telgmann, Oscar Ferdinand (b. 1855 d. 1946) |   conductor, music educator |
  Thompson, Alan Dales (b. 1901) |   radio producer, composer |
  Tremblay, Gilles (Leonce) (b. 1932) |   composer |
  Tremblay, Pierre-Joseph Amedee (b. 1876 d. 1949) |   organ, composer |
  Turner, Robert Comrie (b. 1920) |   composer, radio producer |
  Twa, Andy [Andrew John] (b. 1919) |   composer, violin |
  Vallerand, Jean (d'Auray) (b. 1915) |   composer, critic |
  Van Dijk, Rudi Martinus (b. 1932) |   teacher, composer |
  Vanier, Jeannine (b. 1929) |   organ, teacher |
  Vezina, Joseph (b. 1849 d. 1924) |   organ, choir master |
  Vinet, Michel Raymond (b. 1950) |   composer |
  Vivier, Claude (b. 1948 d. 1983) |   composer |
  Vogt, Augustus Stephen (b. 1861 d. 1926) |   organ, conductor |
  Walter, Arnold (Maria) (b. 1902 d. 1973) |   composer, administrator |
  Weatherseed, John Joseph (b. 1900 d. 1965) |   organ, choir conductor |
  Weinzweig, John (Jacob) (b. 1913) |   composer, teacher |
  Weisgarber, Elliot (b. 1919) |   composer |
  Werren, Phillip (b. 1942) |   composer |
  Whitehead, Alfred (Ernest) (b. 1887 d. 1974) |   organ, choir master |
  Wild, Eric Lees (b. 1910) |   conductor, arranger |
  Willan, Healey [James Healey] (b. 1880 d. 1968) |   composer, teacher |
  Wilson, Charles Mills (b. 1931) |   composer, organ |
  Wuensch, Gerhard Joseph (b. 1925) |   composer, piano |
  Wyre, John (Harvey) (b. 1941) |   percussion, composer |
  Zuckert, Leon (b. 1904) |   violin, composer |