JEANTY, OCCIDE
(1860–1936)> MILITARY BANDMASTER
JEANTY, OCCIDE (“FILS”). Military bandmaster (18 March 1860 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; 28 January 1936 in Port-au-Prince). He came from a musical family: his father, Occilius Jeanty (“Pere”), was a music teacher and a flutist. Occide obtained his musical education at l'Ecole Polymathique de Coupeaud, at the Lycée Pétion in Port-au-Prince, and at l'Ecole Centrale de Musique, of which his father was founder-director. During the years 1881-85 he studied music at the Paris Conservatory in France…