Claude Lagacé

Claude Lagacé (30 April 1917, Sorel-Tracy, Quebec – 7 February 2019, Quebec City) was a Canadian organist, choral conductor, writer on music, and music educator. He was trained as an organist by Henri Gagnon at Université Laval and also studied piano with Germaine Malépart in Quebec City. He was organist-choirmaster of the Rosary Cathedral in Toledo, Ohio from 1954 to 1961. During that time he concurrently worked on the faculty of the Gregorian Institute of America; an institution whose press published his treatise Sixteenth-Century Counterpoint in 1958. In 1957 he was named an associate of the American Guild of Organists.