Ernest MacMillan
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Sir Ernest Alexander Campbell MacMillan (August 18, 1893 – May 6, 1973) was an internationally renouned Canadian orchestrial conductor and composer.
MacMillan was born in Etobicoke, Ontario. A child prodigy, he gave his first organ recital at the age of ten. After studying in London at the Royal College of Organists he studied modern history at the University of Toronto from 1911-1914.
In 1969 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.
He was a conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra between 1931 and 1956. MacMillan died in Toronto in 1973.