Marvin Duchow (June 10, 1914 – May 24, 1979) was a Canadian composer, teacher and musicologist who lived and worked in Montreal, Quebec.
The McGill University Music Library in Montreal is named after him, as is the Duchow String Quartet.
He began studying music theory in 1933 with Claude Champagne at the McGill Conservatory, and took private lessons in composition.
[1] Duchow taught music at several schools while completing his education at New York University.
[4] Among his notable students was composer Alan Belkin and Andrew Homzy https://homzy.ca - a jazz musician/musicologist who wrote the first dissertation on jazz accepted at a Canadian university - https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/79407z60q.. Duchow composed a number of choral works, beginning in the 1930s.