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Person
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Hétu, Jacques
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Description area
Dates of existence
1938-2010
History
Born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, in 1938, Jacques Hétu is one of the most-performed Canadian composers. He studied composition at the Conservatoire in Montreal with Clermont Pépin (1956-1961), then at the École Normale de Musique in Paris with Henri Dutilleux and the Paris Conservatory with Olivier Messiaen (1961-1963). From 1963 until 1977, he taught composition and analysis at the Université Laval in Quebec, before becoming a professor of analysis at the Université du Québec à Montréal (1979-2000).