François Joseph Brassard (6 October 1908 in Métabetchouan – 26 April 1976 in Quebec City) was a Canadian ethnomusicologist, organist, composer and music teacher.
[1] Brassard studied piano with Rolland-Georges Gingras, organ with Omer Létourneau and harmony with Robert Talbot.
He finished his training in 1933–34 in Paris with Albert Bertelin and Guy de Lioncourt and in 1935 at London's Royal College of Music with Ralph Vaughan Williams.
[1] Starting in 1940, he collected more than 1200 French-Canadian folksongs on journeys throughout Canada, and published a series of articles and essays.
[1] The concert hall of the Cégep de Jonquière was named Salle François Brassard in his honour in 1965.