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Marcel Thompson, organist, educator (born 2 April 1923 in Trois-Rivières, QC; died 2 September 2002).
Education
Marcel Thompson studied with his father, Joseph-Antonio Thompson (piano), and with Georges Mercure (Gregorian chant), Henri Gagnon (organ), Alphonse Tardif and Jeanne Landry (theory).
Career Highlights
Under the influence of Marcelle Corneille, Marcel Thompson turned to musical pedagogy. He was organist at the Trois-Rivières Cathedral from 1945 to 1968 and taught school music from 1963 to 1977 at the seminary where he introduced optional music courses in 1964 and subsequently a music department and a concert band. He also taught at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières from 1968 to 1978, which published his Initiation à la musique pour ensembles de flute à bec et petites percussions in 1969. Éditions Naie-Julie later published his Études pour classes de solfège avec accompagnement de piano (two volumes, accompaniments by Lorraine Casaubon).
(See also Claude Thompson.)
