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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze has received more than 159,044 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Émile Jaques-Dalcroze is the 133rd most popular composer (up from 136th in 2019), the 123rd most popular biography from Austria (down from 110th in 2019) and the 14th 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 133 out of 1,216Before him are Karlheinz Stockhausen, Carl Nielsen, Johannes Ockeghem, Paul Dukas, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Maurice Jarre. After him are Iannis Xenakis, César Cui, Emmerich Kálmán, Pierre Boulez, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, and Michel Legrand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze ranks 13Before him are Warren G. Harding, Archduke Otto of Austria, W. B. Yeats, Alexander Glazunov, Carl Nielsen, and Paul Dukas. After him are Sven Hedin, Suzanne Valadon, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Philipp Scheidemann, Andranik, and Alfred Hugenberg. Among people deceased in 1950, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze ranks 13Before him are Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Albert Lebrun, Léon Blum, Marcel Mauss, Willis Carrier, and Vallabhbhai Patel. After him are Karl Renner, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Heinrich Mann, Kurt Weill, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, and Nicolai Hartmann.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze ranks 123 out of 1,237Before him are Fritz Pregl (1869), Otto of Greece (1815), Karl von Frisch (1886), Josef Breuer (1842), Amon Göth (1908), and Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (1633). After him are Leopold, Duke of Lorraine (1679), Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (1886), Dietrich Mateschitz (1944), Karl Thomas Mozart (1784), Helmut Berger (1944), and Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria (1756).

Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze ranks 14Before him are Anton Webern (1883), Carl Czerny (1791), Alban Berg (1885), Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791), Alma Mahler (1879), and Josef Strauss (1827). After him are Anna Maria Mozart (1720), Eduard Strauss (1835), Michael Haydn (1737), Ludwig Minkus (1826), Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871), and Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766).