Joseph Pierre Alexis Contant (12 November 1858 – 28 November 1918) was a Canadian composer, organist, pianist, and music educator. Trained as a pianist, he became one of the first Canadians to compose large-scale choral and orchestral works, in spite of the difficulty of finding suitable teachers of musical composition. His younger years were spent mostly in teaching, family, and work as a church organist, and many of his compositions were written later in life.
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12 November 1858 Montreal, Canada East
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Died |
28 November 1918 (aged 60) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Zodiac | Scorpio |
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