The Calixa-Lavallée Award () is a music

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created in 1959. It is granted by the

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(SSJBM) to a Quebecer having distinguished themself in the field of music.http://degree.youthleadershiptraining.org/podcasts/Calixa-Lavall%C3%A9e-Award.html It was named after musician

Calixa Lavallée Calixa Lavallée (; December 28, 1842 – January 21, 1891) was a Canadians, Canadian musician and Union Army band musician during the American Civil War. He was born in the Province of Canada. He is best known for composing the music for "O Can ...

, composer of the

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O Canada "O Canada" () is the national anthem of Canada. The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony; Calixa Lavallée composed the music, after which French- ...

Laureates

* 1959: Léopold Simoneau * 1959: Pierrette Alarie * 1960: Jacques Beaudry * 1961: Françoise Aubut-Pratte * 1962: Jean Papineau-Couture * 1963: Gilles Lefebvre * 1964: Victor Bouchard and Renée Morisset * 1965: Louis Quilico * 1966:

Gilles Vigneault Gilles Vigneault (; born 27 October 1928) is a Canadian poet, Publishing, publisher, singer-songwriter, and Quebec nationalism, Quebec nationalist and Quebec sovereignty movement, sovereigntist. Two of his songs are considered by many to be Qu ...

* 1967:

Joseph Rouleau Joseph A. Rouleau, (February 28, 1929 – July 12, 2019) was a French Canadian Bass (voice type), bass opera singer, particularly associated with the Italian and French repertoires. Life and career Born in Matane, Quebec, he studied privately w ...

* 1968: Gilles Tremblay * 1969:

Roger Matton Roger Matton OC (18 May 1929 – 7 June 2004) was a Canadian composer,Begins with the Oboe: A History of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra'. University of Toronto Press; 2002. . p. 80, 104. ethnomusicologist, and music educator. As a composer his w ...

* 1970: Clermont Pépin * 1971: Colette Boky * 1972: Claire Gagnier * 1973: Gaston Germain * 1974:

Pauline Julien Pauline Julien, (May 23, 1928October 1, 1998), nicknamed "La Renarde", was a singer, songwriter, actress, feminist activist and Quebec sovereigntist. Born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec,Christian Rioux and Betty Nygaard King."Pauline Julien" ''Th ...

* 1975:

Félix Leclerc Félix Leclerc (August 2, 1914 – August 8, 1988) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, writer, actor and political activist. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 20, 1968. Leclerc was posthumously inducted into ...

* 1976: Jean Carignan * 1977: Lionel Daunais * 1979:

Monique Leyrac Monique Leyrac, (26 February 1928 – 15 December 2019) was a Canadian singer and actress who popularized many songs by French-Canadian composers. Early life Leyrac was born Monique Tremblay in Montreal, Quebec.Alexis Luko, Rachelle Taylor an ...

* 1980: Serge Garant * 1981:

Kenneth Gilbert Kenneth Albert Gilbert (December16, 1931April15, 2020) was a Canadian harpsichordist, organist, musicologist, and music educator. Biography Born in Montreal, Gilbert studied at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal under Yvonn ...

* 1982: Marie-Thérèse Paquin * 1983:

Gilles Potvin Gilles Potvin, (23 October 1923 – 4 September 2000) was a Canadian music critic and music historian. Potvin was born in Montreal. He was a music critic for ''Le Devoir'' (1961–66, 1973–85) and ''La Presse (Canadian newspaper), La Pres ...

* 1985:

Maryvonne Kendergi Maryvonne Kendergi or Kendergian, (15 August 1915 – 27 September 2011) was a Canadian-Armenian writer, professor, musicologist, pianist, and French-speaking Quebecer, Québécois commentator. Life Kendergi was born 15 August 1915 in Gaziante ...

* 1987: Yvonne Hubert * 1988: Jean Cousineau * 1989:

Bernard Lagacé Bernard Lagacé (21 November 1930 – 11 February 2025) was a Canadian organist and musicologist. His two series of recitals covering the works of Johann Sebastian Bach are considered to be landmark events in the history of music in Montreal. He ...

* 1990: Otto Joachim * 1991: Louise André * 1993: Fernand Lindsay * 1996:

Angèle Dubeau Angèle Dubeau, (born 24 March 1962) is a retired Canadian classical violinist. She has devoted a large part of her career to making classical music accessible to a wide audience and also frequently played works by contemporary composers. In O ...

* 2003: Charlie Biddle * 2012: Alain Lefèvre

References

Le prix Calixa-Lavallée

Laureates

References

See also