Maurice Blackburn studied music (piano, organ, composition, improvisation, harmony, counterpoint) at Université Laval from 1937 to ’39, and, at the same time, with Claude Champagne and Georges-Émile Tanguay. After getting a grant from the Québec Government, he entered the New England Conservatory in Boston (1939-41) where he studied with Quincy Porter and Francis Findlay and attended lectures given by Stravinsky at Harvard University in 1940. More