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Émilien Allard. Carillonneur, pianist, clarinetist, composer, b Montreal 12 Jun 1915, d Ottawa 18 Nov 1977; lauréat (Laval), L MUS (Montreal), carillonneur diploma (Beiaardschool te Mechelen, Belgium) 1948. He played the clarinet in the concert band of Grand-Mère, Que, and later conducted the band; he also worked as a church organist in the town. He studied piano and theory with J.-Antonio Thompson and Father Joseph-Gers Turcotte at the Trois-Rivières seminary, and organ and harmony with Eugène Lapierre at the Conservatoire national in Montreal. He served 1942-5 as a clarinetist in the Central Band of the RCAF at Rockcliffe, Ont, then went to Mechelen to the Beiaardschool, where, 1946-8, he studied bell ringing with Staf Nees and composition with Jef van Hoof. He continued his studies at the Paris Cons with Eugène Bigot (conducting), Maurice Duruflé (orchestration), and Olivier Messiaen (aesthetics).
On his return to Canada in 1949, Allard went through a difficult time prior to his appointment in 1955 as the regular carillonneur at Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montreal - a position he was to hold for 20 years. In 1958 he won the International Carillonneurs' Prize at Mechelen at the time of the Brussels World Fair. From 1959 to 1976 he made annual tours in the USA. He left the oratory in 1975 to serve as carillonneur of the Peace Tower in Ottawa, and continued in that position until the year of his death. As carillonneur and organist, and with the organist Eugène Lapierre, Allard made the LP Carols at the Carillon of Saint Joseph's Oratory (RCA Victor LCP.1024), for which he also wrote the arrangements. Allard composed some 50 works for carillon and made more than 700 transcriptions. Among his compositions are Légende for orchestra and Poème bucolique for piano and orchestra broadcast on CBC radio in 1946; a Divertissement for clarinet and orchestra performed in 1947 at a festival of Canadian music in Paris; a Sonata a quattro for oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon, played at the 1960 Montreal Festivals; and a Sonata for carillon premiered in 1968 at Springfield, Ill. He also wrote a triptych for carillon based on three poems taken from Le Jardin de nuit by the Quebec poet Jacques Brillant (pseudonym Jabry). The Howard Cable Band recorded his Marche du maréchal and his Marche H.I.C., and Gordon Slater recorded for the LP Bells and Brass his Notule No. 1 and his Profil canadien no 2. Some of his works still are performed in Holland, Belgium, France, and the USA. The carillonneur Jacques Lannoy paid tribute to Allard in an article in La Musique périodique (Jan-Feb 1977): 'Couperin, Ravel, Olivier Messiaen... these three famous musicians, whose pupil and disciple he was, sum up and typify that French musical culture of which Émilien [Allard] possessed all the finesse, all the sensibility'. His papers are held at the BN du Q.
Writings
Émilien Allard, 'Le carillon et l'art campanaire,' La Musique, vol 2, ed Norbert Dufourcq (Paris 1965)
Author
Denise Ménard
Bibliography
Bull, Rob. 'Ring in the new...,' Ottawa Journal, 12 Apr 1975 'La vie et la mort d'un carillonneur,' Musique périodique, vol 1, Jan-Feb 1977
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