Jaques-Dalcroze, Emile (1865–1950)

Swiss composer and teacher. He is remembered for his system of physical training by rhythmical movement to music (eurhythmics), and founded the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1915.

He studied with Léo Delibes in Paris, France, with Anton Bruckner and Robert Fuchs in Vienna, Austria, and at the Geneva Conservatory, where in 1892 he became professor of harmony. There he invented his system of teaching music by coordination with bodily movement.

Works Stage operas Le Violon maudit (1893), Janie (1894), Sancho Panza (after Cervantes, 1897), Le Bonhomme jadis (1906), Les Jumeaux de Bergame, La Fille au vautour (after W von Hillern's Die Geier-Wally); festival play La Fête de la jeunesse et de la joie (1932).

Choral La Veillée, Festival vaudois.

Orchestral suite for orchestra; two violin concertos (1902, 1911).

Chamber three string quartets.

Other piano music and songs.