Jean-Baptiste Labelle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean-Baptiste Labelle

Canadian musician

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1825

Place of Birth: Burlington, Vermont, United States

Date of Death: 09-Sep-1898

Profession: composer, conductor, pianist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Jean-Baptiste Labelle (September 1825 - 9 September 1898) was a Canadian composer, organist, pianist, and conductor.
He is best known for composing the music to the song Ô Canada! mon pays, mes amours (words 1834, music before 1868) with words by George-Étienne Cartier.
He also used words by Cartier for the song Avant tout je suis Canadien (1860).
Some of his other notable works include the cantatas Cantate: La Confédération (1868) and La Croisade canadienne (1886); the operetta La Conversion d'un pêcheur de la Nouvelle-Écosse (published by the A.J.
Boucher Co.
in 1868); the piano pieces Marche canadienne (1846) and Quadrille national canadien; and the song Chant des Zouaves canadiens (1881).