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François D'Angé
François D'Angé (or d'Anger). Musician, fl 1662-3. One of the first persons referred to as a musician in Canadian historical documents. He was accepted as a boarder at the Jesuit College in Quebec in the fall of 1662.
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François Dompierre
(Joseph Eugène Frédéric) François Dompierre. Composer, accompanist, conductor, arranger, producer, b Ottawa 1 Jul 1943. He studied piano with Hélène Landry and Noëlla Vaillancourt in Ottawa and then organ with Paul Larose.
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François Girard
François Girard, filmmaker, screenwriter (b Saint-Félicien, Qué 12 Jan 1963). Following studies in music, Girard turned to audiovisual techniques and in the mid-1980s began a career as a video producer without, however, turning his back completely on music videos and publicity.
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François Héraly
(J.A.) François Héraly. Clarinetist, bandmaster, teacher, b Flavin, near Namur, Belgium, 1856, d Montreal between 20 and 22 Jul 1920. In 1867 he began music study in Brussels, and in 1873 he attended the conservatory at Namur, where he joined a regimental band.
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François Morel
François Morel, composer, pianist, professor, conductor (born 14 March 1926 in Montréal; died 14 January 2018). François Morel was one of the few composers to have received his education predominantly in Québec, where he studied with Claude CHAMPAGNE and Jean PAPINEAU-COUTURE.
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François Morel
François (d'Assise) Morel, composer, pianist, conductor (born 14 March 1926 in Montréal; died 14 January 2018), lauréat piano (AMQ) 1947, piano-teaching diploma (AMQ) 1950, deuxième prix piano (CMM) 1951, premier prix fugue (CMM) 1953.
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François Papineau-Couture
François Papineau-Couture. Instrument builder, flutist, b Montreal 1 Apr 1953; BA teaching (Montreal) 1972, B MUS (Montreal) 1977. After studying the flute, he undertook a one-year stay in London studying the building of plucked keyboard instruments with John Rawson.
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François Tousignant
François Tousignant, composer, teacher (born 26 Apr 1955 in Montreal, QC; died 26 March 2019 in Montreal). François Tousignant’s catalogue of compositions includes some 30 works, in which serialism is a dominant influence. Among these are La Chevelure... for three sopranos and electric piano (1978), a commission from the French government on the occasion of the centenary of Alfred Cortot's birth and the 50th anniversary of the hall named after him; Portrait, a music-theater work inspired by Beaudelaire (1984); Concerto for piano and orchestra (1985); and Diptyque for orchestra (1988).
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François Vézina
(Xavier) François Vézina. Master painter, bassoonist, clarinetist, conductor, b Quebec City 10 May 1812, d there 12 Feb 1891.
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François-Xavier Garneau
He excelled in primary school, but lack of money apparently barred his way to a classical education. His self-education and natural reserve explain the "proud independence" which impressed his contemporaries.
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François-Xavier Mercier
François-Xavier Mercier (Merçay). Tenor, teacher, b Quebec City, 13 Aug 1867, d Quebec City 22 Dec 1932. He sang in Quebec City from his early childhood, especially at the Church of the Congregation of Notre-Dame (now Jacques-Cartier).
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Françoise Aubut
Françoise Aubut-Pratte (née Aubut), organist, educator (born 5 September 1922 in St-Jérôme, QC; died 8 October 1984 in Montréal, QC).
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Françoise Faucher
Françoise Faucher, actor, director, and moderator (b at Montmorency, France, 1929). Trained in drama in France under René Simon and Bernard Bimont, Faucher immigrated to Canada in the early 1950s with her husband Jean Faucher, also involved in theatre.
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Françoise Loranger
Françoise Loranger, dramatist, novelist (b at St-Hilaire, Qué 18 June 1913; d 8 April 1995). Her novel, Mathieu (1949), a gloomy portrayal of Québec society in the DUPLESSIS era, received critical acclaim, but it is chiefly on her dramatic texts, many televised nationally, that her reputation rests.
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