A guide to Canada's composers
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| Adaskin, Murray (b. 1906) | composer |
| Agostini, Giuseppe (b. 1890 d. 1971) | cantante de opera, conductor |
| Aitkin, Robert Morris (b. 1939) | flute, composer |
| Ambrose, Paul (b. 1868 d. 1941) | church organist, composer |
| Anderson, William Henry (b. 1882 d. 1955) | composer, choir master |
| Anger, Joseph Humfrey (b. 1862 d. 1913) | teacher, composer |
| Anhalt, Istvan (b. 1919) | composer, teacher |
| Applebaum, Louis (b. 1918) | composer |
| Aragon, Alexandre (b. 1889) | organ, choir master |
| Archer, Violet (b. 1913) | composer, piano |
| Assaly, Edmund Phillip (b. 1920 d. 1983) | music director, piano |
| Auria, Francesco (Mariano) (b. 1841 d. 1913) | conductor, composer |
| Bales, Gerald Albert (b. 1919) | organ, choir master |
| Bancroft, Henry Hugh (b. 1904) | organ, choir master |
| Barclay, Robert L. (b. 1918 d. 1980) | composer, writer |
| Barnes, Milton (b. 1931) | composer |
| Bartley, Ewart Andrew (b. 1909 d. 1987) | composer |
| Bayley, Robert Charlton (b. 1913) | music educator, organ |
| Beckwith, John (b. 1927) | composer, critic |
| Bedard, Louis (b. 1906) | piano, organ |
| Beecroft, Norma Marian (b. 1934) | composer, administrator |
| Bell, Hugh Poynter (b. 1872 d. 1961) | critic, composer |
| Bell, Leslie Richard (b. 1906 d. 1962) | choir conductor, music educator |
| Belleau, Dantes (b. 1897 d. 1960) | piano, organ |
| Berlin, Boris (b. 1907) | piano teacher, composer |
| Bernier, Conrad (b. 1904) | piano, organ |
| Bernier, Joseph Arthur (b. 1877 d. 1944) | organ, piano |
| Bertrand, Felix-Routhier (b. 1909 d. 1978) | organ, piano |
| Betts, Lorne M. (b. 1918) | teacher, choir conductor |
| Bissell, Keith Warren (b. 1912) | composer, music educator |
| Blachford, Frank Edward (b. 1879 d. 1957) | violin, teacher |
| Blackburn, Maurice (b. 1914 d. 1988) | composer |
| Blomfield-Holt, Patricia (b. 1910) | composer, teacher |
| Boivin, Maurice F. (b. 1920) | composer |
| Borre, Cesar (b. 1880 d. 1950) | conductor, composer |
| Bottenberg, Wolfgang (b. 1930) | composer |
| Bouchard, Victor (b. 1926) | piano, administrator |
| Branscombe, Gena (b. 1881 d. 1977) | music educator, composer |
| Brassard, Francois Joseph (b. 1908 d. 1976) | composer |
| Brewer, George MacKenzie (b. 1889 d. 1947) | organ, piano |
| Broome, William Edward (b. 1868 d. 1932) | conductor, organ |
| Brott, Alexander (b. 1915) | composer, conductor |
| Brown, Allanson Gordon Yeoman (b. 1902) | organ, choir master |
| Buckley, Robert (b. 1946) | composer |
| Buczynski, Walter (b. 1933) | composer, piano |
| Cabena, Barrie [Harold Barrie] (b. 1933 a. 1957) | organ, composer |
| Cable, Howard Reid (b. 1920) | conductor, arranger |
| Cadoret, Charlotte (Soeur St. Jean-du-Sacre Coeur) (b. 1908) | piano, composer |
| Cadzow, Dorothy Forrest (b. 1916) | composer, arranger |
| Caron, Allan (b. 1898) | piano, organ |
| Caron, Joseph Charles Eugene (b. 1900) | organ, composer |
| Caron-Legris, Albertine (b. 1906 d. 1972) | piano, composer |
| Champagne, Claude (b. 1891 d. 1965) | composer |
| Charpentier, Gabriel (b. 1925) | composer, poet |
| Chatillon, Octave Hardy (b. 1831 d. 1906) | violin, piano |
| Cherney, Brian (b. 1942) | musicologist, composer |
| Chong, John (b. 1953) | composer |
| Ciamaga, Gustave (b. 1930) | composer |
| Claman, Dolores Olga (b. 1927) | piano, composer |
| Clarke, Douglas Dean (b. 1893 d. 1962) | conductor, music educator |
| Clarke, Frederick Robert Charles (b. 1931) | organ, choir master |
| Clarke, James Paton (b. 1807 d. 1877) | composer, teacher |
| Clements, Peter (b. 1940) | teacher, composer |
| Codman, Stephen (b. 1796 d. 1852) | organ |
| Collier, Ron [Ronald William] (b. 1930) | composer, bandleader |
| Collingwood, Arthur (b. 1880 d. 1952) | music educator, conductor |
| Contant, Alexis [Joseph Pierre Alexis] (b. 1858 d. 1918) | composer, organ |
| Cooper, Irvin (b. 1900 d. 1971) | composer |
| Coulthard, Jean (b. 1908) | composer |
| Coutts, George James (b. 1888 d. 1962) | organ, piano |
| Couture, Guillaume (b. 1851 d. 1915) | composer, organ |
| Crawford, Paul (Duncan) (b. 1947) | composer, radio producer |
| Crawford, Thomas James (b. 1877 d. 1955) | composer, organ |
| Crepault, Napoleon (b. 1849 d. 1906) | organ, piano |
| Dahlgren, David (b. 1947) | composer |
| Dainty, Ernest Herbert (b. 1891 d. 1947) | piano, organ |
| Daveluy, Raymond [Joseph Eugene Raymond Marie] (b. 1926) | organ, composer |
| Decoursey, Ralph (b. 1918) | piano, composer |
| Dela, Maurice (b. 1919 d. 1978) | composer, organ |
| Descarries, Joseph Ernest Auguste (b. 1896 d. 1958) | piano, organ |
| Dessane, Marie-Hippolyte Antonin [Antoine] (b. 1826 d. 1873) | organ, piano |
| Dichmount, William (b. 1882 d. 1943) | piano, organ |
| Dolin, Samuel Joseph (b. 1917) | composer |
| Drynan, Margaret (b. 1915) | teacher, composer |
| Duchow, Marvin (b. 1914 d. 1979) | musicologist, composer |
| Eaton, Richard Stephen (b. 1914 d. 1968) | organ, choir master |
| Eckhardt-Gramatte, Sophie-Carmen (b. 1899 d. 1974) | composer, piano |
| Egener, Frederick Tristam (b. 1886 d. 1973) | organ, composer |
| Egerton, Arthur Henry (b. 1891 d. 1957) | organ, choir master |
| Eggleston, Anne Elizabeth (b. 1934) | composer |
| Evans, Robert (b. 1933) | composer |
| Fiala, George Joseph (b. 1922) | composer, piano |
| Fisher, Arthur Elwell (b. 1848 d. 1912) | music educator, composer |
| Fleming, Gordon Charles James (b. 1903 d. 1959) | organ, piano |
| Fleming, Robert James Berkeley (b. 1921 d. 1976) | composer, violin |
| Forsyth, Wesley Octavius (b. 1863 d. 1937) | piano, composer |
| Fortier, Marc (b. 1940) | composer, arranger |
| Fox, George (b. 1911) | composer |
| France, William Edward (b. 1912 d. 1985) | organ, composer |
| Freedman, Harry (b. 1922) | composer |
| Fricker, Herbert Austin (b. 1868 d. 1943) | choir trainer, conductor |
| Friedlander, Ernst Peter (b. 1906 d. 1966) | cello, composer |
| Gagnier, Josephat Jean (b. 1885 d. 1949) | conductor, composer |
| Gagnon, Alain (b. 1938) | composer |
| Garant, Serge (b. 1929 d. 1986) | composer, conductor |
| Gayfer, James McDonald (b. 1916) | conductor, composer |
| Gellman, Steven (b. 1947) | composer, piano |
| George, Graham Elias (b. 1912) | composer, teacher |
| Giron, Arsenio (b. 1932) | composer |
| Glick, Srul Irving (b. 1934) | composer, radio producer |
| Godden, Reginald (b. 1905 d. 1987) | piano, teacher |
| Goldberg, Theo (b. 1921) | composer, teacher |
| Gratton, J.J. Hector (b. 1900 d. 1970) | composer, conductor |
| Ham, Albert William (b. 1858 d. 1940 a. 1897-1935) | organ, choir conductor |
| Hamer, Harold Spensley (b. 1900 d. 1980) | music educator, organ |
| Harmer, Daniel Jevon (b. 1911 d. 1989) | composer, arranger |
| Harriss, Charles (Albert Edwin) (b. 1862 d. 1929 a. 1910) | composer, impresario |
| Hartwell, Hugh Kenneth (b. 1945) | composer, teacher |
| Hawkins, John (b. 1944) | arranger, banjo |
| Haworth, Frank (b. 1905 a. 1956) | composer, music educator |
| Healey, Derek Edward (b. 1936) | composer, organ |
| Hetu, Jacques (Joseph Robert) (b. 1938) | composer, teacher |
| Hewlett, William Henry (b. 1873 d. 1940) | teacher, organ |
| Higgin, Clifford (b. 1876 d. 1951) | organ, choir master |
| Hill, Lewis Eugene (b. 1909 d. 1976) | organ, choir master |
| Hodkinson, Sydney Phillip (b. 1934) | composer, conductor |
| Hone, Jules (b. 1833 d. 1913) | violin, teacher |
| Huse, Peter (b. 1938) | composer, poet |
| Jaque, Rhene (b. 1918) | composer, violin |
| Jehin-Prume, Frantz (b. 1839 d. 1899 a. 1885) | violin, composer |
| Joachim, Otto (b. 1910 a. 1949) | composer, viol |
| Jodoin, Laurent (b. 1911) | piano, composer |
| Johnston, Richard (b. 1917) | teacher, administrator |
| Jones, Kelsey [Herbert Kelsey] (b. 1922) | composer |
| Jones, Trevor Morgan (b. 1899) | piano, composer |
| Kalnins, Janis [John] (b. 1904) | composer, conductor |
| Karam, Frederick (b. 1926 d. 1978) | composer, organ |
| Kasemets, Udo (b. 1919) | composer, teacher |
| Keetbaas, Dirk (b. 1921 a. 1928) | flute, record producer |
| Kemp, Walter Herbert (b. 1938) | musicologist, organ |
| Kenins, Talivaldis (b. 1919) | composer, teacher |
| Kent, Ada Jane Fairlina (b. 1888 d. 1969) | piano, organ |
| Klein, Lothar (b. 1932) | composer |
| Kolinski, Mieczyslaw (b. 1901 d. 1981) | composer, piano |
| Kunits, Luigi [Ludwig Paul Maria] (b. 1870 d. 1931) | conductor, violin |
| Kunz, Alfred Leopold (b. 1929) | composer, conductor |
| Labelle, Charles (b. 1849 d. 1902) | organ, composer |
| Laliberte, Joseph Francois Albert (b. 1882 d. 1952) | piano, composer |
| Lapierre, Eugene (b. 1899 d. 1970) | organ, teacher |
| Laufer, Edward (b. 1938) | composer, teacher |
| Lavallee, Calixa (b. 1842 d. 1891) | composer, piano |
| Lavallee-Smith, Louis Alphonse (b. 1873 d. 1912) | organ, teacher |
| Le Caine, Hugh (b. 1914 d. 1977) | scientist, composer |
| Letondal, Arthur John (b. 1869 d. 1956) | piano, organ |
| Lord, Frederic (b. 1886 d. 1945) | choral director, teacher |
| Lorrain, Denis (b. 1948) | composer |
| Lucas, Clarence Reynolds (b. 1866 d. 1947) | composer, conductor |
| Maclean, Quentin (Stuart Morvaren) (b. 1896 d. 1962) | organ, composer |
| MacMillan, Ernest (Alexander Campbell) (b. 1893 d. 1973) | conductor, composer |
| MacNutt, Walter Louis (b. 1910 d. 1996) | composer, organ |
| Major, Douglas (b. 1914 d. 1969) | composer, organ |
| Mann, Leslie Douglas (b. 1923 d. 1977) | composer, clarinet |
| Mather, Bruce [James Bruce] (b. 1939) | composer, conductor |
| Mathieu, Andre [Rene Andre Rodolphe] (b. 1929 d. 1968) | piano, composer |
| Mathieu, Rodolphe (b. 1890 d. 1962) | composer, teacher |
| Matton, Roger (b. 1929) | composer |
| McCauley, William Alexander (b. 1917) | composer |
| McIntyre, Margaret (b. 1905 d. 1952) | violin, composer |
| McIntyre, Paul Poirier (b. 1931) | composer, piano |
| McMullin, Robert Wesley (b. 1921) | composer, arranger |
| McPhee, Colin (Carhart) (b. 1900 d. 1964) | composer, ethnomusicologist |
| Meek, Kenneth (b. 1908 d. 1976) | organ, choir master |
| Mercure, Pierre (b. 1927 d. 1966) | composer |
| Mignault, Alfred Joseph Edouard (b. 1895 d. 1961) | organ, composer |
| Mills-Cockell, John (b. 1943) | composer, synthesizer |
| Miro, Henri (b. 1879 d. 1950) | composer, conductor |
| Molt, Theodore Frederic (b. 1795 d. 1859) | teacher |
| Montgomery, William Augustus (b. 1872 d. 1948) | cast, organ |
| Moore, Ernest Alwyn (b. 1899) | organ, choir conductor |
| Morawetz, Oskar (b. 1917 a. 1940) | composer, piano |
| Morel, Francois (d'Assise) (b. 1926) | composer, musicisti |
| Morin-Labrecque, Albertine Rosalie Odile (b. 1886 d. 1957) | piano, soprano |
| Morley, Glen (Stewart) (b. 1912) | conductor, composer |
| Murgatrotd, Vernon (b. 1941) | composer |
| Needham, Lucien Arthur (b. 1929) | conductor, teacher |
| Nimmons, Phil [Philip Rista] (b. 1923) | clarinet, composer |
| O'Neill, Charles (b. 1882 d. 1964) | composer |
| Papineau-Couture, Jean (b. 1916) | composer, teacher |
| Pasch, Sylvio (b. 1938) | composer |
| Patriquin, Donald (b. 1938) | composer |
| Peacock, Kenneth Howard (b. 1922) | ethnomusicologist, piano |
| Pedersen, Paul Richard (b. 1935) | administrator, composer |
| Pelletier, Frederic (b. 1870 d. 1944) | choir master, critic |
| Pelletier, Romain Octave (b. 1844 d. 1927) | organ, piano |
| Pentland, Barbara (Lally) (b. 1912) | composer |
| Pepin, Clermont [Jean-Josephat Clermont] (b. 1926) | composer, piano |
| Perrault, Michel Brunet (b. 1925) | conductor, composer |
| Polson, Arthur (Ludwig) (b. 1934) | violin, composer |
| Prevost, Andre (b. 1934) | bandmaster, composer |
| Quesnel, Joseph [Louis Joseph Marie] (b. 1746 d. 1809) | composer, playwright |
| Rae, Allan (b. 1942) | composer |
| Rathburn, Eldon Davis (b. 1916) | composer |
| Rea, John (b. 1944) | composer, teacher |
| Read, Angelo McCallum (b. 1854 d. 1926) | teacher, composer |
| Reed, William (b. 1859 d. 1945) | organ, choir master |
| Renaud, Emiliano (b. 1875 d. 1932) | piano, composer |
| Ridout, Godfrey (b. 1918 d. 1984) | composer |
| Ringuet, Leon (b. 1858 d. 1932) | bandmaster, composer |
| Robertson, Eric (b. 1948) | composer |
| Roff, Joseph (b. 1910) | composer |
| Rogers, William Keith (b. 1921) | composer |
| Russell, Welford (Hamilton) (b. 1900 d. 1975) | surgeon, composer |
| Sabatier, Charles Desire Joseph Wughk (b. 1820 d. 1862) | piano, composer |
| Saint-Marcoux, Micheline Coulombe (b. 1938 d. 1985) | composer, teacher |
| Savaria, Georges (b. 1916) | piano, ondist |
| Schafer, R. Murray [Raymond Murray] (b. 1933) | composer, writer |
| Schudel, Thomas (b. 1937) | composer, administrator |
| Sherman, Norman Morris (b. 1926) | composer, bassoon |
| Silvester, Frederick Caton (b. 1901 d. 1966) | organ, choir conductor |
| Slater, David Dick (b. 1869 d. 1942) | organ, teacher |
| Slater, Nick [Nicholas] (b. 1925) | composer, teacher |
| Smith, Leo [Joseph Leo] (b. 1881 d. 1952) | composer, cello |
| Somers, Harry (Stuart) (b. 1925) | composer, piano |
| Southam, Ann (b. 1937) | composer, teacher |
| Surdin, Morris (b. 1914 d. 1979) | composer, arranger |
| Symonds, Norman Alec (b. 1920) | composer, clarinet |
| Szczeniowski, Boleslaw (b. 1898 a. 1942) | composer |
| Tanguay, Georges-Emile (b. 1893 d. 1964) | composer, organ |
| Tardif, Georges Alfred (b. 1903 d. 1978) |
| Telgmann, Oscar Ferdinand (b. 1855 d. 1946) | conductor, music educator |
| Thompson, Alan Dales (b. 1901) | radio producer, composer |
| Tremblay, Gilles (Leonce) (b. 1932) | composer |
| Tremblay, Pierre-Joseph Amedee (b. 1876 d. 1949) | organ, composer |
| Turner, Robert Comrie (b. 1920) | composer, radio producer |
| Twa, Andy [Andrew John] (b. 1919) | composer, violin |
| Vallerand, Jean (d'Auray) (b. 1915) | composer, critic |
| Van Dijk, Rudi Martinus (b. 1932) | teacher, composer |
| Vanier, Jeannine (b. 1929) | organ, teacher |
| Vezina, Joseph (b. 1849 d. 1924) | organ, choir master |
| Vinet, Michel Raymond (b. 1950) | composer |
| Vivier, Claude (b. 1948 d. 1983) | composer |
| Vogt, Augustus Stephen (b. 1861 d. 1926) | organ, conductor |
| Walter, Arnold (Maria) (b. 1902 d. 1973) | composer, administrator |
| Weatherseed, John Joseph (b. 1900 d. 1965) | organ, choir conductor |
| Weinzweig, John (Jacob) (b. 1913) | composer, teacher |
| Weisgarber, Elliot (b. 1919) | composer |
| Werren, Phillip (b. 1942) | composer |
| Whitehead, Alfred (Ernest) (b. 1887 d. 1974) | organ, choir master |
| Wild, Eric Lees (b. 1910) | conductor, arranger |
| Willan, Healey [James Healey] (b. 1880 d. 1968) | composer, teacher |
| Wilson, Charles Mills (b. 1931) | composer, organ |
| Wuensch, Gerhard Joseph (b. 1925) | composer, piano |
| Wyre, John (Harvey) (b. 1941) | percussion, composer |
| Zuckert, Leon (b. 1904) | violin, composer |