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Music's Ross Duffin discusses origins of O Canada

Media | August 05, 2020 | Story by: Editorial Staff

Expat musicologist contends O Canada not an original composition

Globe and Mail: Ross Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music and Distinguished University Professor at the College of Arts and Sciences, discussed the music of O Canada, as not an original but rather a patchwork of four pre-existing pieces—including previously published works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt and Matthias Keller.