1916-2000 CA, Montreal
Composer of Classical
Jean Papineau-Couture, CC GOQ (November 12, 1916 – August 11, 2000) was a Canadian composer and academic. Guillaume Couture & Jean Papineau-Couture pierre tombale (tomb), Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery, Montreal. Born in Montreal, Papineau-Couture is the grandson of conductor and composer Guillaume Couture. As a child he studied piano with his mother. He first studied privately in Montreal with Gabriel Cusson before entering the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1937. He then attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where he received a Bachelor of Music in 1941. He studied with Nadia Boulanger at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Returning to Quebec, Papineau-Couture's teaching career started in 1946 when he joined the faculty of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal where he stayed until 1962. He also taught in the Faculty of Music at the Université de Montréal. He was named vice-dean in 1967 and dean from 1968 until 1973. Two of his notable pupils were François Morel and Pierre Rolland. In 1962 Papineau-Couture was awarded the Calixa-Lavallée Award. In 1968, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1993. In 1989, he was made a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec. Papineau-Couture received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement in 1994 for his contribution to classical music.[1]
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Quatuors À Cordes Nos. 1-4 Trio Slanò | Jean Papineau-Couture, Quatuor Molinari | 2016 | Album |
Prouesse | Rivka Golani / David Jaeger, Marjan Mozetich, Jean Papineau-Couture, Ann Southam, Steve Tittle | 1992 | Album |
Jean Papineau-Couture: Ideé ⦁ Slano ⦁ Départ ⦁ Verségères ⦁ Dialogues | Jean Papineau-Couture / Louis-Philippe Pelletier ⦁ Accordes String Quartet ⦁ Robert Aitken ⦁ Denise Lupien | 1988 | Album |
Anthology Of Canadian Music / Anthologie de la Musique Canadienne | Jean Papineau-Couture | 1979 | Album |
Untitled | Quatuor Classique De Montréal - Jean Papineau-Couture / Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux / Alain Gagnon | 1972 | Album |
Music And Musicians Of Canada Centennial Edition Vol. X / Musique Et Musiciens Du Canada Edition Du Centenaire Vol. X | Harry Somers, Jean Papineau-Couture, Ludwig van Beethoven | 1967 | Album |
Programme N°4 | Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Brott, Jean Papineau-Couture | 1967 | Compil. |
Programme 148 | Pierrette Alarie, Jean Papineau-Couture, John Beckwith, Clermont Pépin | Album | |
String Quartet No. 3 (1962) / Quatuor A Cordes No. 2 (1967) | Orford String Quartet - John Weinzweig / Jean Papineau-Couture | Album | |
Études Symphoniques Op. 13 / Complémentarité | Jean-Paul Sevilla, Robert Schumann, Jean Papineau-Couture | Album |