Marius Cayouette (3 November 1904,

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– 16 March 1985,

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) was a Canadian

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, and music educator. As a composer, he is best known for his works for organ, including ''Deux Ex-voto'', Offertoire on ''Hodie Christus natus es'', ''Thèmes grégoriens'' for Easter, ''Deux Miniatures'' (Christmas and Easter), and ''Prélude sur un cantique à Ste-Anne''. He is also known for his ''Ave Maria'' for

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. Cayouette was the organist at the Église de Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand in Montreal from 1924 to 1974. He concurrently served as the chair of musical aesthetics at

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from 1946 to 1952. He also taught both music history and music aesthetics on the faculty of the

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. He was a member of the Diocesan Commission for Sacred Music. His papers are held in the

Claude Lagacé Claude Lagacé (1 May 1917, Sorel-Tracy, Quebec – 7 February 2019, Quebec City) was a Canadian organist, choral conductor, writer on music, and music educator. He was trained as an organist by Henri Gagnon at Université Laval and also studied pi ...

collection at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cayouette, Marius 1904 births 1985 deaths Academic staff of Université Laval Academic staff of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Québec Canadian composers Canadian organists