Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest | Edmond Fortier | Anselme Payen | François-Edmond Fortier | Bernard-Anselme d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin | Anselme Bellegarrigue |
As a harpsichordist, on February 20, 1938 he participated in the Carnegie Hall premiere of J.S. Bach's Coffee Cantata under the direction of Walter Damrosch; the other performers on that occasion included singers Charles Kullman, Helen Jepson, and Lawrence Tibbett; flutist Frances Blaisdell; violinists Jascha Heifetz and Sascha Jacobsen; violist Leon Barzin; cellist Gaspar Cassadó; and double bassist Anselme Fortier.