Claude Champagne

Canadian (Québec) composer, teacher, pianist, and violinist born May 27, 1891 and died December 21, 1965 in Montreal. For the Engineer, please use Claude Champagne.
He studied piano with Romain-Octave Pelletier junior. In Paris he took composition lessons with André Gédalge, Raoul Laparra and Charles Koechlin.
He was a professor at the "Conservatoire" and at the "Université De Montréal" from 1930 until his death.
From 1934 to 1942, Champagne worked for the "Commission Des Écoles Catholiques De Montréal" as director of musical education, training primary school teachers for whom he wrote five music theories. Then, he became assistant director of the new "Conservatoire De Musique Du Québec", of which he was one of the main instigators.
Editor-in-chief of the Canadian publishing department of Université De Montréal (1949-65) and a member of countless examination and competition juries, Champagne was an influential and respected musician and a great servant of music.