Calixa meaning

Calixa Lavallée, whose ancestors came from Poitou in France and from Scotland, showed musical talent at an early age. His father, a blacksmith who was also a maker of stringed instruments, a voicer of organs, and a bandmaster, provided his basic musical training and taught him to play the piano, organ, cornet, and violin. Around 1850 the family settled in Saint-Hyacinthe, where Augustin Lavallée worked as a voicer with organmaker Joseph Casavant*. Young Calixa was enrolled in 1852 in the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe. In the spring of 1855 a wealthy Montreal butcher, Léon Derome, took him under his wing, inviting him to stay in his home. Piano lessons with Paul Letondal and Charles Sabatier [Wugk*], both of whom had come from France several years

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