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Calixa Lavallée

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Lavallée gave his first performance at Montreal's Theatre Royal (on Côté Street) on 28 February 1859 and later that year he was hired by Charles Duprez to play violin, cornet, and piano in a travelling minstrel troupe. With this company, the New Orleans Minstrels, Lavallée travelled through much of
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Between December 1863 and the early months of 1866 Lavallée organized concerts, composed and taught. In 1866, he was hired once again by Duprez and left for the US, where he would remain until 1872. In December 1867, he married an American woman, Josephine Gentilly, while in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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After two years in Paris, Lavallée returned to Montreal in July 1875, where he continued to perform and compose. Between 1875 and 1880, he lived in Montreal and Quebec City, where he worked as a pianist, organist and music teacher, and also conducted orchestral and operatic productions in concert
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in Boston, and he died penniless in that city in 1891. As the result of the campaign by the Montréal-based music director of the Victoria's Rifles, Joseph-Laurent Gariépy, his remains were returned to Montréal and reinterred at
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until he was mustered out on October 3, 1862. He then rejoined Duprez's company and continued to tour until the fall of 1863, when he returned to Montreal.
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Lavallée began his musical education with his father (Eli Grande), who taught him organ by age 11. Lavallée also studied in Montréal with Paul Letondal and
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in Quebec also bears his name. The following roads were named to honour Calixa Lavallée:
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in Montréal, Quebec City and in many U.S. cities. Among his pupils was composer
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Calixa-Lavallée Privée (Calixa-Lavallée Pvt.) a small dead-end laneway on the
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the United States in the years leading up to the outbreak of the Civil War.
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During the later years of his life, Lavallée was the choirmaster at the
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Rue Calixa-Lavallée, a dead-end street entering into Lafontaine Park,
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Emigrants from pre-Confederation Quebec to the United States
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in the regimental band. He served with the 4th in the
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Battle of Roanoke Island
Battle of New Bern
Battle of South Mountain
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O Canada
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