Georges-Émile Tanguay (5 June 1893 – 24 November 1964) was a Canadian composer, organist, pianist, and music educator.
[2] Born in Quebec City, Tanquay earned a lauréat diploma from the Académie de musique du Québec where he was a pupil of Léon J. Dessane and Joseph-Arthur Bernier.
He then lived and worked in New York City where he studied the organ with Pietro Yon and Gaston Dethier.
He remained in that city for the next five years studying under Georges Caussade (harmony and counterpoint), Édouard Mignan (organ), and Simone Plé-Caussade (piano).
He was one of the original faculty members at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal when the school opened in 1943.