Gaston Dufresne

Gaston Dufresne (9 September 1898 – 6 December 1998) was the principal bassist in the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1927 to 1957[1] and with the Florida West Coast Symphony from 1963 to 1979.[1] Among his contrabass students were American composer Leroy Anderson and Boston Symphony principal trumpeter Roger Voisin. He also taught solfège,[1] a singing technique used to teach pitch, for which his students included future-musicologist Robert Gjerdingen.[2]

Dufresne wrote Develop Sight Reading, a book of progressive sight reading studies which has been transcribed for use by all orchestral instruments. Dufresne was born 9 September 1898 in Lille, France and died on 6 December 1998 in Sarasota, Florida.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Gaston Dufresne". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. December 18, 1998. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
  2. ^ Gjerdingen, Robert (2020). Child Composers in the Old Conservatories: How Orphans Became Elite Musicians. Oxford University Press. p. v. ISBN 9780190653590.
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