Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

(1865-1950)

Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, author of instrumental and vocal music, was born in Vienna on the 6th July 1865, the same year of the composers Boeck, De Boeck, Drake, Dukas, Dupin, Gilson, Loomis, Luders, Ludwig, Luporini, Magnard, Miles, Morera, Nielsen, Olenin, Orefice, Reinhardt, Sibelius, Spinelli, Szopski, Tofft. He died in Ginevra on the first July 1950

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of Late Romanticism

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"Riquet à la houppe" has been represented in 1883

"Janie" was performed in 1894

"Sancho Pança" has been represented in 1897 in Génève

"Onkel Dazumal" (Le bonhomme jadis) has been represented in 1905 in Köln

"Les Jumeaux de Bergame" has been represented in 1908 in Bruxelles

"Fête de juin" has been represented in 1914

"Le Petit roi qui pleure" was performed in 1932

"Race Horses" (1885), oil on canvas, 30 x 40.6 cm, of the painter Edgar Degas, contemporary of Jaques-Dalcroze (Museum of Art, Philadelphia)

Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

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