Marvin Duchow (June 10, 1914 – May 24, 1979) was a Canadian composer, teacher and musicologist who lived and worked in

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. He was an expert on

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and the music of eighteenth century France. The McGill University Music Library in Montreal is named after him, as is the Duchow String Quartet.

Early life and education

Duchow was born in

. He began studying music theory in 1933 with Claude Champagne at the McGill Conservatory, and took private lessons in composition. After graduating with a Bachelor of Music, from 1937 to 1939 he attended the Curtis Institute, where he studied composition with Rosario Scalero and music criticism with Samuel Chotzinoff. He then attended New York University, while supporting himself by teaching.

Career

Duchow taught music at several schools while completing his education at New York University. He then returned to Montreal, where he taught at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal and, beginning in 1944, at

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.
Music education in Canada: a historical account
'. University of Toronto Press; 1 September 1991. . p. 407.Paul Helmer.
Growing with Canada: The ƒmigrŽ Tradition in Canadian Music
'. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP; November 2009. . p. 121. From 1957 to 1963 he was the dean of McGill's Faculty of Music.
Istvan Anhalt: Pathways and Memory
'. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP; 8 November 2001. . p. 147. Among his notable students was composer Alan Belkin and Andrew Homzy https://homzy.ca - a jazz musician/musicologist who wrote the first dissertation on jazz accepted at a Canadian university - https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/79407z60q.. Duchow composed a number of choral works, beginning in the 1930s. In the 1950s he was an associate editor of ''The Canadian Music Journal'', to which he contributed scholarly articles."Lack Of Live Talent: Music Journal Slips"
''Winnipeg Free Press'', via Newspaper Archives. August 17, 1957 - Page 28. by Ken Winters The Marvin Duchow Memorial Scholarship was established in his name.

Works

*''Songs of My Youth'', Liedzyklus, 1930 *''Variations on a Chorale'' Orchestral, 1936 *''For a Rose's Sake'', 1938 *''Motet'', 1938 *''Seven Chorale Preludes in Traditional Style''

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, 1939 *''Quartet in C Minor'', 1939, 1942 *''A Carol Choir'', 1943 *''Badinerie'' for Piano and Orchestra, 1947 *''Chant intime'' (''Prelude'') for Piano, 1947 *''Sonata'' for Piano, 1955 *''Movement for Strings'' (''Largamente''), 1972 *''Three Songs of the Holocaust/ Trois Chants de l'Holocaust''

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writing from 1977 is involved in it.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Duchow, Marvin 1914 births 1979 deaths Canadian male composers Musicians from Montreal 20th-century Canadian composers 20th-century Canadian male musicians