Alexander Brott, CM, CQ, born Joël Brod,, was a Canadian conductor, composer, violinist and music teacher. Brott's wife, Lotte, was an accomplished cellist, his son Boris Brott is a conductor and his son Denis Brott is a cellist and conductor. Brott was born in Montreal, and was leader of the Montreal Orchestra, Les Concerts symphoniques de Montréal and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 1945 to 1958.

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  • Alexander Brott, CM, CQ, born Joël Brod,, was a Canadian conductor, composer, violinist and music teacher. Brott's wife, Lotte, was an accomplished cellist, his son Boris Brott is a conductor and his son Denis Brott is a cellist and conductor. Brott was born in Montreal, and was leader of the Montreal Orchestra, Les Concerts symphoniques de Montréal and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 1945 to 1958. In 1939, he joined the Faculty of Music at McGill University, where he remained until 1980. His compositions included Arabesque, Circle, Triangle, 4 Squares, and Paraphrase in Polyphony. He was also the founder and musical director of the McGill Chamber Orchestra. He also conducted the Kingston Symphony Orchestra from 1965 to 1981. In 1979 he was made a Member of the Order of Canada and in 1988 he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. His entertaining memoirs, "Alexander Brott: My Lives in Music" (with co-writer Betty Nygaard King), were published by Mosaic Press in 2005. He died in Montreal at the age of 90.
  • Alexander Brott war ein kanadischer Komponist, Dirigent, Violinist und Musikpädagoge.
  • Aleander Brott est un musicien et professeur québécois né à Montréal le 14 mars 1915 et décédé le 1 avril 2005. Alexander Brott est l'un des plus éminents musiciens canadiens. Il a servi la cause de la musique à Montréal comme violon solo et assistant chef d'orchestre de l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, à la Faculté de Musique de l'Université McGill, de 1939 jusqu'à sa retraite en 1980, comme professeur, chef d'orchestre-en-résidence et à la tête du département instrumental.
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  • Alexander Brott, CM, CQ, born Joël Brod,, was a Canadian conductor, composer, violinist and music teacher. Brott's wife, Lotte, was an accomplished cellist, his son Boris Brott is a conductor and his son Denis Brott is a cellist and conductor. Brott was born in Montreal, and was leader of the Montreal Orchestra, Les Concerts symphoniques de Montréal and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 1945 to 1958.
  • Alexander Brott war ein kanadischer Komponist, Dirigent, Violinist und Musikpädagoge.
  • Aleander Brott est un musicien et professeur québécois né à Montréal le 14 mars 1915 et décédé le 1 avril 2005. Alexander Brott est l'un des plus éminents musiciens canadiens.
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