Joseph Georges-Émile Gaston Allaire (18 June 1916 – 15 January 2011) was a Canadian
musicologist,
organist,
pianist,
composer, and
music educator of American birth. His compositional output includes several preludes for organ, an organ work on French carols, some
motets and other
choral works, a communion service, a prelude and fugue for string orchestra, and a polyphonic mass. He also wrote
Suite laurentienne for orchestra from which the
Poème and the
Menuet were premiered by the
Quebec Symphony Orchestra in 1949, and composed the music for the 1953 film
The Man on the Beach. His
Marche (1964) and
Petite Suite (1965) were both written for the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps Band.