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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze has received more than 172,768 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Émile Jaques-Dalcroze is the 158th most popular composer (down from 133rd in 2019), the 147th most popular biography from Austria (down from 123rd 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

Among composers, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze ranks 158 out of 1,451. Before him are Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez, Michel Legrand, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Vincenzo Galilei, and Michael Haydn. After him are Ferruccio Busoni, Komitas, Siegfried Wagner, Giovanni Paisiello, Max Reger, and Bohuslav Martinů.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze ranks 19. Before him are Carl Nielsen, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Sven Hedin, Andranik, Philipp Scheidemann, and Paul Dukas. After him are Alfred Hugenberg, Benjamin Guggenheim, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Félix Vallotton, Amélie of Orléans, and Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Among people deceased in 1950, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze ranks 21. Before him are Léon Blum, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Kurt Weill, Sri Aurobindo, Emil Jannings, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. After him are George Minot, Ramana Maharshi, Roman Shukhevych, Nicolai Hartmann, Karl Seitz, and Max Beckmann.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze ranks 147 out of 1,424. Before him are Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria (1750), Ernst Gombrich (1909), Edward Bernays (1891), Michael Haydn (1737), Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland (1573), and Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria (1751). After him are Leopold III, Duke of Austria (1351), Paul Ehrenfest (1880), Helmut Marko (1943), Heinz Fischer (1938), Walther von der Vogelweide (1170), and Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria (1529).

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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 Michael Haydn (1737). After him are Eduard Strauss (1835), Anna Maria Mozart (1720), Ludwig Minkus (1826), Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871), Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739), and Clemens Krauss (1893).

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