Achilles Fortier

Achille Fortier (1864-1939) is a type-setter and a Canadian professor.

After studies in Montreal with Dominique Ducharme and Guillaume Seams, he left to study with the Conservatoire of Paris, with Ernest Guiraud, Romain Bussine and Theodore Dubois.

Choirmaster to the Notre-Dame Church of Montreal in 1892, it taught with the Institut Nazareth and composed more than thirty parts, including thirteen profane songs. In 1900, he becomes translator for the Gouvernement of Canada.

The critic Léo-pol. Morin compared some of its parts with those of Gabriel Fauré. Its most known pupils are Jean-Christmas Charbonneau, Gabriel Cusson and Edouard LeBel.

He was in addition freemason.

Works

solemn Walk
Waltz
Meditation
Ave verum
O Salutaris Hostia
Which would know? , 1895
Mass, 1896
Popular songs of Canada, 1893
Haec dies, 1900
Tantum Ergo, 1900
O Canada! my country! my loves! , 1929

Honors

Street Achilles-Fortier of Montreal
Unit Achilles-Fortier

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