Joseph Georges-Émile Gaston Allaire (18 June 1916 – 15 January 2011)[1] was a Canadian musicologist, organist, pianist, composer, and music educator of American birth.
[3] Born in Berlin, New Hampshire to parents Marie and Xavier, Allaire moved with his family to Danville, Quebec when he was just two years old.
He entered the Conservatoire national de musique in Montréal in 1940 where he was a pupil of Auguste Descarries (piano) and Eugène Lapierre (organ).
He went on to earn a PhD in musicology from Boston University in 1960 after writing a doctoral thesis entitled The masses of Claudin de Sermisy.
He continued to research and publish articles on renaissance polyphonic vocal music with the Revue Belge de Musicologie, and on his website allairefictamusic.com which he kept up until 2010 As a performer, Allaire toured as both an organ and piano recitalist throughout Canada.