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| | Couture, Guillaume (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | In the spring of 1873, with the support of Léon A. Sentenne, Sulpician and curé of St-Jacques, he went to Paris and on June 20 successfully completed the entrance examinations for the Conservatoire, in the foreign students' section. |
 | | When Dubois succeeded Saint-Saëns in 1877 as organist of the Madeleine, Couture replaced Dubois as choirmaster at Ste-Clotilde Church, where César Franck presided over the great organ and Charles Bordes over the choir organ. |
 | | Among his Canadian pupils were Guillaume Dupuis, Lynnwood Farnam, L.J. Oscar Fontaine, Achille Fortier, Henri Gagnon, George Alfred Grant-Schaefer, Arthur Laurendeau, Édouard LeBel, Léo-Pol Morin, Ada Moylan, Rodolphe Plamondon, and Caroline Racicot. |
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