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From the age of four, he began studying music, first learning the violin and then the piano from his mother, despite his father's wishes that his son would follow in his business profession. After leaving school, he earned a living as a private teacher, as an accompanist, and as a cinema pianist.
After graduating from secondary school in 1908, he delayed entering the Paris Conservatoire in order to help his father, whose family business had suffered a financial setbacks. While working there, his plans switched from music to acting, an interest stimulated by meeting actors ,singers, artists and writers during the family’s earlier travels.
Jacques Ibert was a composer whose music is admired for its colourful, technically polished, and often witty neoclassical style. Ibert studied at the Paris Conservatory and in 1919 won the Prix de Rome for his cantata Le Poète et la fée (“The Poet and the Fairy”).
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French composer Jacques Ibert studied music from an early age at the Paris Conservatoire and won its top prize, the Prix de Rome at his first attempt, despite studies interrupted by his service in World War I.
Born in Paris on August 15, 1890, Jacques Ibert studied music from an early age, learning first the violin and then the piano. His mother, a talented pianist, encouraged his interest in music. In 1910, he entered the prestigious Paris Conservatoire where he studied with André Gedalge and Paul Vidal.
Jun 6, 2015 · Critics have often called Jacques Ibert “eclectic,” but that may have more to do with their not being able to pigeon-hole him into one school of music or another. What stands out most of all about Ibert, though, is that he is a remarkably resourceful composer.
He studied with André Gédalge, Emil Pessard and Paul Vidal at the Paris Conservatoire, won the Prix de Rome in 1919 and his output, impressionistic and sometimes frivolous (as in the Divertissement of 1930), features operas, ballets, orchestral works, concertos (including for saxophone and chamber orchestra), vocal, chamber, piano and film music.
