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Émile Jaques-Dalcroze

1865 - 1950

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Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (6 July 1865 – 1 July 1950) was a Swiss composer, musician, and music educator who developed Dalcroze eurhythmics, an approach to learning and experiencing music through movement. Dalcroze eurhythmics influenced Carl Orff's pedagogy, used in music education throughout the United States. Dalcroze's method teaches musical concepts, often through movement. The variety of movement analogues used for musical concepts develop an integrated and natural musical expression in the student. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Émile Jaques-Dalcroze is the 163rd most popular composer (down from 158th in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from Austria (down from 147th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Austrian Composer.

Émile Jaques-Dalcroze is most famous for his method of musical education, the Dalcroze Eurhythmics.

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Among composers, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze ranks 163 out of 1,451. Before him are George Enescu, César Cui, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Enrique Granados, Iannis Xenakis, and Eduard Strauss. After him are Kurt Weill, Adrian Willaert, William Byrd, Karol Szymanowski, Hugo Wolf, and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze ranks 20. Before him are Suzanne Valadon, Sven Hedin, Wilfrid Voynich, Paul Dukas, Philipp Scheidemann, and Akseli Gallen-Kallela. After him are Jacques Hadamard, John Mott, Félix Vallotton, Andranik, Benjamin Guggenheim, and Frederick Augustus III of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1950, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze ranks 19. Before him are Marcel Mauss, Karl Renner, George Minot, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Willis Carrier, and Sri Aurobindo. After him are Kurt Weill, Ramana Maharshi, Emil Jannings, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Karl Seitz, and Roman Shukhevych.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze ranks 160 out of 1,424. Before him are Frederick the Fair (1289), Franz Stangl (1908), Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1718), Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (1559), Nikola IV Zrinski (1508), and Eduard Strauss (1835). After him are Hermann Broch (1886), Leopold III, Duke of Austria (1351), Ingeborg Bachmann (1926), Rudolf I of Bohemia (1281), Fritz Kreisler (1875), and Eric Kandel (1929).

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Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze ranks 15. Before him are Alban Berg (1885), Carl Czerny (1791), Alma Mahler (1879), Josef Strauss (1827), Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791), and Eduard Strauss (1835). After him are Michael Haydn (1737), Anna Maria Mozart (1720), Johann Joseph Fux (1660), Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736), Ludwig Minkus (1826), and Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766).

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