Violet Archer
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Canadian classical music composer (1913-2000)
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It sits within the topics 1913 births, 2000 deaths and 20th-century Canadian classical composers.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 19
Top works
- Concerto for violin and orchestra
- Divertimento for brass quintet
- Divertimento for orchestra
- Eleven short pieces for piano
- Fanfare and passacaglia
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 319
- Total plays
- 1,209
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Violet Louise Archer (born: Violet Balestreri) Violet Archer (1913–2000) was a Canadian composer, pianist, organist, percussionist and music educator. Her family changed "Balestreri" name to Archer in 1940. Violet studied at McGill University, receiving a Licentiate in Music diploma in 1934 and BMus degree in 1936, and also acquired an associate diploma from the Royal Canadian College of Organists in 1938. Archer visited New York in the summer of 1942, where she studied composition with Béla B
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Violet
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Montreal
- Place of death
- Ottawa
- Occupation
- pianist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Student of
- Béla Bartók
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- organ
- Image
- Violet Archer at the piano.tif
Show 5 more facts
- date of death
- 2000-02-21
- date of birth
- 1913-04-24
- name in native language
- Violet Archer
- P8168
- Ō no Yasumaro
- Commons category
- Violet Archer
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