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About Jean Girard
- Jean Girard (8 August 1696 – 23 February 1765) was a French organist, serpent player, and schoolmaster who was primarily active in Canada.
- He was one of the first professional musicians living and working in the city of Montreal.Born in Bourges, Girard initially intended to become a priest and entered the seminary of the Society of Saint-Sulpice in his native city in 1720.
- He never became ordained and began his career as a singing master at the seminary at the Église Saint-Sulpice, Paris in 1724.
- The following July he sailed across the Atlantic to Canada where he remained for the rest of his life.
- From 1724 until his death in 1765 he served as the organist of the Notre-Dame Church in Montreal.
- He also was active as a teacher.He is mainly known for the voluminous book of French organ music he collected and brought with him from Paris; that anonymous collection is presently known as Livre d’Orgue de Montréal.
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