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Germain Lalande, gregorianist, teacher (born 21 September 1903 in Ste-Scholastique (Mirabel), QC; died 1993.)
Career Highlights
After being educated in Sainte-Thérèse and at the Grand séminaire de Montréal, where he studied singing with Jean-Noël Charbonneau and Guillaume Dupuis, Germain Lalande was ordained a priest in 1929. During a stay in Paris (1930–33), he joined the Company of Saint-Sulpice in 1931 and studied with Auguste Le Guennant (Gregorian technique), Marc de Ranse (harmony), and Henri Potiron (Gregorian accompaniment).
Lalande returned to Canada and was a teacher and choirmaster at the Collège de Montréal (1934–45), became bursar of the Grand séminaire de Montréal, and was director of its schola (1951–67). A member of the diocesan committee on sacred music, he was appointed in 1964 to the episcopal commission on liturgical reform. From 1964 on, Lalande composed for the commission and worked with several women's religious communities on the liturgy.
His settings of parts of the Kyriale, along lines suggested by Vatican II, have occasionally appeared in the weekly religious missal Prions en Église.
