Jean Papineau-Couture

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Jean Papineau-Couture, CC GOQ (November 12, 1916 – August 11, 2000) was a Canadian composer and academic. Born in Montreal, Papineau-Couture is the grandson of conductor and composer Guillaume Couture. As a child he studied piano with his mother. He first studied privately in Montreal with Gabriel Cusson before entering the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1937. He then attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where he received a Bachelor of Music in 1941. He studied with Nadia Boulanger at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Returning to Quebec, Papineau-Couture's teaching career started in 1946 when he joined the faculty of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal where he stayed until 1962. He also taught in the Faculty of Music at the Université de Montréal. He was named vice-dean in 1967 and dean from 1968 until 1973. Two of his notable pupils were François Morel and Pierre Rolland. In 1962 Papineau-Couture was awarded the Calixa-Lavallée Award. In 1968, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1993. In 1989, he was made a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec. Papineau-Couture received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement in 1994 for his contribution to classical music. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

top songs

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Papineau-Couture: Quatuors à cordes Nos. 1-4 & Trio Slanò

Papineau-Couture, J.: Idee / Dialogues / Depart / Versegeres / Slano / Nuit

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Papineau-Couture: Quatuors à cordes Nos. 14 & Trio Slanò

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Papineau-Couture, J.: Canadian Composers Portraits

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Papineau-Couture, J.: Violin Concerto / Piece Concertante No. 3 / Paysage / Piano Concerto (Canadian Composers Portraits)

Ovation • Volume 2

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écoutes tmc 2

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Steven Staryk Anthology (Disc 11)

Quatuors à cordes n° 1-4

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Papineau-Couture: Suite for Winds and Piano

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Papineau-Couture: Pièce Concertante No. 3

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Jean Papineau-Couture

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