Gaston Allaire
CANADIAN MUSICOLOGIST, ORGANIST, PIANIST, COMPOSER, AND MUSIC EDUCATOR OF AMERICAN BIRTH
Joseph Georges-Émile Gaston Allaire
Joseph Georges-Émile Gaston Allaire (18 June 1916 – 15 January 2011) was a Canadian musicologist, organist, pianist, composer, and music educator of American birth."Gaston Allaire, un musicologue qui pursuit son oeuvre à 72 ans", Montreal, La Presse, 18 December 1988 His compositional output includes several preludes for organ, an organ work on French carols, some motets and other choral works, a communion service, a prelude and fugue for string orchestra, and a polyphonic mass.