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Jacques Ibert

March 20, 2023

Jacques François Antoine Marie Ibert (15 August 1890 – 5 February 1962) was a French composer of classical music. Having studied music from an early age, he studied 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.

Jacques Ibert

Ibert pursued a successful composing career, writing (sometimes in collaboration with other composers) seven operas, five ballets, incidental music for plays and films, works for piano solo, choral works, and chamber music. He is probably best remembered for his orchestral works including Divertissement (1930) and Escales (1922).

As a composer, Ibert did not attach himself to any of the prevalent genres of music of his time, and has been described as an eclectic. This is seen even in his best-known pieces: Divertissement for small orchestra is lighthearted, even frivolous, and Escales (1922) is a ripely romantic work for large orchestra.

In tandem with his creative work, Ibert was the director of the Académie de France at the Villa Medici in Rome. During World War II he was proscribed by the pro-Nazi government in Paris, and for a time he went into exile in Switzerland. Restored to his former eminence in French musical life after the war, his final musical appointment was in charge of the Paris Opera and the Opéra-Comique.

Biography

Early years

Ibert was born in Paris. His father was a successful businessman, and his mother a talented pianist who had studied with Antoine François Marmontel and encouraged the young Ibert's musical interests. 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. He also started composing songs, sometimes under the pen name William Berty, and helped his father's business, which had suffered a financial setback. In 1910, Ibert became a student at the Paris Conservatoire, studying with Émile Pessard (harmony), André Gedalge (counterpoint) and Paul Vidal (composition).[1] Gédalge also gave him private lessons in orchestration; Ibert's fellow-students at these private classes included Arthur Honegger and Darius Milhaud.[2]

Ibert's musical studies were interrupted by the outbreak of World War I, in which he served as a naval officer. After the war he married Rosette Veber, daughter of the painter Jean Veber. Resuming his studies, he won the Conservatoire's top prize, the Prix de Rome at his first attempt, in 1919.[2] The prize gave him the opportunity to pursue further musical studies in Rome. In the course of these, Ibert composed his first opera, Persée et Andromède (1921), to a libretto by his brother-in-law, the author Michel Veber, writing under the pen name "Nino".[3]

Composer and administrator

 
Ibert in the 1930s

Among Ibert's early orchestral compositions were La Ballade de la geôle de Reading, inspired by Oscar Wilde's poem, and Escales (Ports of Call), inspired by his experiences of Mediterranean ports while he was serving in the navy.[4] The first of these works was played at the Concerts Colonne in October 1922, conducted by Gabriel Pierné; the second was performed in January 1924 with Paul Paray conducting the Orchestre Lamoureux. The two works made Ibert an early reputation both at home and abroad. His publisher Alphonse Leduc commissioned two collections of piano music from him, Histoires and Les Rencontres, which enhanced his popularity.[2] In 1927 his opéra-bouffe Angélique was produced; it was the most successful of his operas, a musical farce, displaying eclectic style and flair.[3]

In addition to composing, Ibert was active as a conductor and in musical administration. He was a member of professional committees, and in 1937 he was appointed director of the Académie de France at the Villa Medici in Rome. Ibert, with the enthusiastic support of his wife "threw himself wholeheartedly into his administrative role and proved an excellent ambassador of French culture in Italy."[2] He held the post until the end of 1960, except for an enforced break while France and Italy were at war during World War II.

Later years

The war years were difficult for Ibert. In 1940 the Vichy government banned his music and he retreated to Antibes, in the south of France, and later to Switzerland and the Haute-Savoie. In August 1944, he was readmitted to the musical life of the country when General de Gaulle recalled him to Paris. In 1955 Ibert was appointed administrator of the Réunion des Théâtres Lyriques Nationaux, which ran both the Paris Opera and the Opéra-Comique. After less than a year, his health obliged him to retire. Shortly afterwards he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts.[2]

Ibert died in Paris aged 71, and is buried at Passy Cemetery in the city's 16th arrondissement.

Music

Ibert refused to ally himself to any particular musical fashion or school, maintaining that "all systems are valid", a position that has caused many commentators to categorise him as "eclectic".[3] His biographer, Alexandra Laederich, writes, "His music can be festive and gay … lyrical and inspired, or descriptive and evocative … often tinged with gentle humour … all the elements of his musical language bar that of harmony relate closely to the Classical tradition."[2] The early orchestral works, such as Escales, are in "a lush Impressionist style",[5] but Ibert is at least as well known for lighthearted, even frivolous, pieces, among which are the Divertissement for small orchestra and the Flute Concerto.[5]

Ibert's stage works similarly embrace a wide variety of styles. His first opera, Persée et Andromède, is a concise, gently satirical piece. Angélique displays his "eclectic style and his accomplished writing of pastiche set pieces".[3] Le roi d'Yvetot is written, in part in a simple folklike style. The opéra bouffe Gonzague is another essay in the old opera bouffe style. L'Aiglon, composed jointly with Honegger, employs commedia dell'arte characters and much musical pastiche in a style both accessible and sophisticated.[2] For the farcical Les petites Cardinal the music is in set pieces in the manner of an operetta. By contrast Le chevalier errant, a choreographic piece incorporating chorus and two reciters, is in an epic style.[3] Ibert's practice of collaborating with other composers extended to his works for the ballet stage. His first work composed expressly for the ballet was a waltz for L'éventail de Jeanne (1929) to which he was one of ten contributors, others of whom were Ravel and Poulenc. He was the sole composer of four further ballets between 1934 and 1954.[2]

For the theatre and cinema, Ibert was a prolific composer of incidental music. His best-known theatre score was music for Eugène Labiche's Un chapeau de paille d'Italie, which Ibert later reworked as the suite Divertissement. Other scores ranged from music for farce to that for Shakespeare productions. His cinema scores covered a similarly broad range. He wrote the music for more than a dozen French films, and for American directors he composed a score for Orson Welles's 1948 film of Macbeth, and the Circus ballet for Gene Kelly's Invitation to the Dance in 1952.[2]

Works

 
Cinq Pieces en Trio - II. Andantino
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Operas

Ballet

  • Les amours de Jupiter, ballet (1945)
  • Le chevalier errant, épopée choréographique (1951)

Orchestral

  • La ballade de la geôle de Reading (1920)
  • Escales (1922)
    1. Rome – Palerme
    2. Tunis – Nefta
    3. Valencia
  • Valse (1927; for the children's ballet L'éventail de Jeanne, to which ten French composers each contributed a dance)
  • Divertissement (1929)
  • Suite symphonique (1930)
  • Symphonie marine (1931)
  • Ouverture de fête (1940)
  • Louisville Concerto (1953)
  • Hommage à Mozart (1955)
  • Bacchanale (1956)
  • Tropismes pour des amours imaginaires (1957)
  • Bostoniana (1961; first movement of an unfinished symphony)

Concertos

  • Concerto for Cello and Wind Instruments (1925)
  • Flute Concerto (1934)
  • Concertino da camera for Alto Saxophone and Eleven Instruments (1935–1936)
  • Symphonie Concertante for Oboe and String Orchestra

Vocal/choral orchestral

  • Le poète et la fée

Chamber/instrumental

  • Six pièces for harp solo (1916–1917)
  • Trois Pièces for organ Pièce Solennelle, Musette, Fugue (1920)
  • Deux mouvements for 2 flutes (or flute and oboe), clarinet and bassoon (1921)
  • Jeux, Sonatine for flute and piano (1923)
  • Le Jardinier de Samos for flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, cello and percussion (1924)
  • Française for guitar (1926)
  • Arie (Vocalise) for flute, violin and piano (1927)
  • Aria for flute (or other instrument) and piano (1927, 1930)
  • Trois pièces brèves for wind quintet (1930)
  • Ariette for guitar (1935)
  • Cinq pièces en trio for oboe, clarinet and bassoon (1935)
  • Entr'acte for flute (or violin) and harp (or guitar) (1935)
  • Pièce for flute solo (1936)
  • String Quartet (1937–1942)
  • Capriccio pour dix instruments for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, harp, 2 violins, viola, and cello (1936–1938)
  • Trio for violin, cello and harp (1944)
  • Deux interludes for flute, violin and harpsichord (or harp) (1946)
  • Étude-caprice pour un Tombeau de Chopin for cello solo (1949)
  • Ghirlarzana for cello solo (1950)
  • Caprilena for violin solo (1950)
  • Impromptu for trumpet and piano (1950)
  • Carignane for bassoon and piano (1953)
  • Arabesque for bassoon and piano

Piano

  • Histoires, ten pieces for piano (1922)
    1. La meneuse de tortues d'or (D minor)
    2. Le petit âne blanc (F♯ major)
    3. Le vieux mendiant (E major)
    4. A Giddy Girl (G major)
    5. Dans la maison triste (C♯ minor)
    6. Le palais abandonné (B minor)
    7. Bajo la mesa (A minor)
    8. La cage de cristal (The crystal cage) (E minor)
    9. La marchande d'eau fraiche (The water seller) (F♯ minor)
    10. Le cortège de Balkis (F major)
  • Toccata (D major)
  • Escales (arr. for piano by the composer)
  • Le vent dans les ruines (En Champagne)
  • Les rencontres (Petite suite en forme de ballet)
  • Matin sur l'eau
  • Noel en Picardie
  • Petite suite en 15 images (1944)
    1. Prélude
    2. Ronde
    3. Le gai vigneron
    4. Berceuse aux étoiles
    5. Le cavalier Sans-Souci
    6. Parade
    7. La promenade en traineau
    8. Romance
    9. Quadrille
    10. Sérénade sur l'eau
    11. La machine à coudre
    12. L'adieu
    13. Les crocus
    14. Premier bal
    15. Danse du cocher
  • Valse de L'éventail de Jeanne (arr. for piano by the composer)

Incidental music

Film music

References

  1. ^ "Jacques Ibert", in Sax, Mule & Co, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, H & D, 2004, p. 135
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Laederich, Alexandra, "Ibert, Jacques." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, accessed 18 September 2010 (subscription required)
  3. ^ a b c d e Langham Smith, Richard 1992, "Ibert, Jacques." The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Grove Music Online, accessed 18 September 2010 (subscription required)
  4. ^ Kuhn, Laura (ed.) Ibert, Jacques (François Antoine), Student Encyclopedia of Music, vol. 2, Schirmer Reference New York, published 1999, accessed 18 September 2010 (subscription required)
  5. ^ a b Griffiths, Paul and Richard Langham Smith "Ibert, Jacques (François Antoine Marie)." The Oxford Companion to Music, Oxford Music Online, accessed 18 September 2010 (subscription required)
  6. ^ Patsy Morita "Entr'acte, for flute (or violin) & harp (or guitar)(from "Le médecin de son honneur"). "ALLMUSIC", accessed 30 March 2014

External links

  • Works by or about Jacques Ibert at Internet Archive
  • The official website of Jacques Ibert

March 20, 2023
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Jacques Francois Antoine Marie Ibert 15 August 1890 5 February 1962 was a French composer of classical music Having studied music from an early age he studied 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 Jacques Ibert Ibert pursued a successful composing career writing sometimes in collaboration with other composers seven operas five ballets incidental music for plays and films works for piano solo choral works and chamber music He is probably best remembered for his orchestral works including Divertissement 1930 and Escales 1922 As a composer Ibert did not attach himself to any of the prevalent genres of music of his time and has been described as an eclectic This is seen even in his best known pieces Divertissement for small orchestra is lighthearted even frivolous and Escales 1922 is a ripely romantic work for large orchestra In tandem with his creative work Ibert was the director of the Academie de France at the Villa Medici in Rome During World War II he was proscribed by the pro Nazi government in Paris and for a time he went into exile in Switzerland Restored to his former eminence in French musical life after the war his final musical appointment was in charge of the Paris Opera and the Opera Comique Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Early years 1 2 Composer and administrator 1 3 Later years 2 Music 3 Works 3 1 Operas 3 2 Ballet 3 3 Orchestral 3 4 Concertos 3 5 Vocal choral orchestral 3 6 Chamber instrumental 3 7 Piano 3 8 Incidental music 3 9 Film music 4 References 5 External linksBiography EditEarly years Edit Ibert was born in Paris His father was a successful businessman and his mother a talented pianist who had studied with Antoine Francois Marmontel and encouraged the young Ibert s musical interests 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 He also started composing songs sometimes under the pen name William Berty and helped his father s business which had suffered a financial setback In 1910 Ibert became a student at the Paris Conservatoire studying with Emile Pessard harmony Andre Gedalge counterpoint and Paul Vidal composition 1 Gedalge also gave him private lessons in orchestration Ibert s fellow students at these private classes included Arthur Honegger and Darius Milhaud 2 Ibert s musical studies were interrupted by the outbreak of World War I in which he served as a naval officer After the war he married Rosette Veber daughter of the painter Jean Veber Resuming his studies he won the Conservatoire s top prize the Prix de Rome at his first attempt in 1919 2 The prize gave him the opportunity to pursue further musical studies in Rome In the course of these Ibert composed his first opera Persee et Andromede 1921 to a libretto by his brother in law the author Michel Veber writing under the pen name Nino 3 Composer and administrator Edit Ibert in the 1930s Among Ibert s early orchestral compositions were La Ballade de la geole de Reading inspired by Oscar Wilde s poem and Escales Ports of Call inspired by his experiences of Mediterranean ports while he was serving in the navy 4 The first of these works was played at the Concerts Colonne in October 1922 conducted by Gabriel Pierne the second was performed in January 1924 with Paul Paray conducting the Orchestre Lamoureux The two works made Ibert an early reputation both at home and abroad His publisher Alphonse Leduc commissioned two collections of piano music from him Histoires and Les Rencontres which enhanced his popularity 2 In 1927 his opera bouffe Angelique was produced it was the most successful of his operas a musical farce displaying eclectic style and flair 3 In addition to composing Ibert was active as a conductor and in musical administration He was a member of professional committees and in 1937 he was appointed director of the Academie de France at the Villa Medici in Rome Ibert with the enthusiastic support of his wife threw himself wholeheartedly into his administrative role and proved an excellent ambassador of French culture in Italy 2 He held the post until the end of 1960 except for an enforced break while France and Italy were at war during World War II Later years Edit The war years were difficult for Ibert In 1940 the Vichy government banned his music and he retreated to Antibes in the south of France and later to Switzerland and the Haute Savoie In August 1944 he was readmitted to the musical life of the country when General de Gaulle recalled him to Paris In 1955 Ibert was appointed administrator of the Reunion des Theatres Lyriques Nationaux which ran both the Paris Opera and the Opera Comique After less than a year his health obliged him to retire Shortly afterwards he was elected to the Academie des Beaux Arts 2 Ibert died in Paris aged 71 and is buried at Passy Cemetery in the city s 16th arrondissement Music EditIbert refused to ally himself to any particular musical fashion or school maintaining that all systems are valid a position that has caused many commentators to categorise him as eclectic 3 His biographer Alexandra Laederich writes His music can be festive and gay lyrical and inspired or descriptive and evocative often tinged with gentle humour all the elements of his musical language bar that of harmony relate closely to the Classical tradition 2 The early orchestral works such as Escales are in a lush Impressionist style 5 but Ibert is at least as well known for lighthearted even frivolous pieces among which are the Divertissement for small orchestra and the Flute Concerto 5 Ibert s stage works similarly embrace a wide variety of styles His first opera Persee et Andromede is a concise gently satirical piece Angelique displays his eclectic style and his accomplished writing of pastiche set pieces 3 Le roi d Yvetot is written in part in a simple folklike style The opera bouffe Gonzague is another essay in the old opera bouffe style L Aiglon composed jointly with Honegger employs commedia dell arte characters and much musical pastiche in a style both accessible and sophisticated 2 For the farcical Les petites Cardinal the music is in set pieces in the manner of an operetta By contrast Le chevalier errant a choreographic piece incorporating chorus and two reciters is in an epic style 3 Ibert s practice of collaborating with other composers extended to his works for the ballet stage His first work composed expressly for the ballet was a waltz for L eventail de Jeanne 1929 to which he was one of ten contributors others of whom were Ravel and Poulenc He was the sole composer of four further ballets between 1934 and 1954 2 For the theatre and cinema Ibert was a prolific composer of incidental music His best known theatre score was music for Eugene Labiche s Un chapeau de paille d Italie which Ibert later reworked as the suite Divertissement Other scores ranged from music for farce to that for Shakespeare productions His cinema scores covered a similarly broad range He wrote the music for more than a dozen French films and for American directors he composed a score for Orson Welles s 1948 film of Macbeth and the Circus ballet for Gene Kelly s Invitation to the Dance in 1952 2 Works Edit Cinq Pieces en Trio II Andantino source source Performed by Michael Henoch Larry Combs and William Buchman Courtesy of Musopen Problems playing this file See media help Operas Edit Persee et Andromede 1921 Angelique 1927 Le roi d Yvetot 1930 Gonzague 1931 L Aiglon Acts 1 and 5 the rest by Arthur Honegger 1937 Les petites cardinal operetta with Honegger 1938 Barbe bleue 1943Ballet Edit Les amours de Jupiter ballet 1945 Le chevalier errant epopee choreographique 1951 Orchestral Edit La ballade de la geole de Reading 1920 Escales 1922 Rome Palerme Tunis Nefta Valencia Valse 1927 for the children s ballet L eventail de Jeanne to which ten French composers each contributed a dance Divertissement 1929 Suite symphonique 1930 Symphonie marine 1931 Ouverture de fete 1940 Louisville Concerto 1953 Hommage a Mozart 1955 Bacchanale 1956 Tropismes pour des amours imaginaires 1957 Bostoniana 1961 first movement of an unfinished symphony Concertos Edit Concerto for Cello and Wind Instruments 1925 Flute Concerto 1934 Concertino da camera for Alto Saxophone and Eleven Instruments 1935 1936 Symphonie Concertante for Oboe and String OrchestraVocal choral orchestral Edit Le poete et la feeChamber instrumental Edit Six pieces for harp solo 1916 1917 Trois Pieces for organ Piece Solennelle Musette Fugue 1920 Deux mouvements for 2 flutes or flute and oboe clarinet and bassoon 1921 Jeux Sonatine for flute and piano 1923 Le Jardinier de Samos for flute clarinet trumpet violin cello and percussion 1924 Francaise for guitar 1926 Arie Vocalise for flute violin and piano 1927 Aria for flute or other instrument and piano 1927 1930 Trois pieces breves for wind quintet 1930 Ariette for guitar 1935 Cinq pieces en trio for oboe clarinet and bassoon 1935 Entr acte for flute or violin and harp or guitar 1935 Piece for flute solo 1936 String Quartet 1937 1942 Capriccio pour dix instruments for flute oboe clarinet bassoon trumpet harp 2 violins viola and cello 1936 1938 Trio for violin cello and harp 1944 Deux interludes for flute violin and harpsichord or harp 1946 Etude caprice pour un Tombeau de Chopin for cello solo 1949 Ghirlarzana for cello solo 1950 Caprilena for violin solo 1950 Impromptu for trumpet and piano 1950 Carignane for bassoon and piano 1953 Arabesque for bassoon and pianoPiano Edit Histoires ten pieces for piano 1922 La meneuse de tortues d or D minor Le petit ane blanc F major Le vieux mendiant E major A Giddy Girl G major Dans la maison triste C minor Le palais abandonne B minor Bajo la mesa A minor La cage de cristal The crystal cage E minor La marchande d eau fraiche The water seller F minor Le cortege de Balkis F major Toccata D major Escales arr for piano by the composer Le vent dans les ruines En Champagne Les rencontres Petite suite en forme de ballet Matin sur l eau Noel en Picardie Petite suite en 15 images 1944 Prelude Ronde Le gai vigneron Berceuse aux etoiles Le cavalier Sans Souci Parade La promenade en traineau Romance Quadrille Serenade sur l eau La machine a coudre L adieu Les crocus Premier bal Danse du cocher Valse de L eventail de Jeanne arr for piano by the composer Incidental music Edit Suite Elisabethaine for Shakespeare s A Midsummer Night s Dream 1942 Entr acte for Pedro Ignacio Calderon s El medico de su honra Le medecin de son honneur 1937 6 Film music Edit S O S Foch director Jean Arroy 1931 Moon Over Morocco Julien Duvivier 1931 Don Quichotte Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1932 The Two Orphans Maurice Tourneur 1933 Maternite Jean Choux 1934 Justin de Marseille fr Tourneur 1935 Golgotha Duvivier 1935 Le Coupable Raymond Bernard 1936 Anne Marie 1936 The Former Mattia Pascal L Homme de nulle part Pierre Chenal 1937 Conflict Leonide Moguy 1938 The Patriot 1938 Angelica 1939 Therese Martin 1939 The Phantom Carriage 1939 Le Heros de la Marne Andre Hugon 1939 La Comedie du bonheur Marcel L Herbier 1940 Les Petites du quai aux fleurs Marc Allegret 1944 Macbeth Orson Welles 1948 Circus ballet for Invitation to the Dance Gene Kelly 1952 Marianne of My Youth Duvivier 1955References Edit Jacques Ibert in Sax Mule amp Co Jean Pierre Thiollet H amp D 2004 p 135 a b c d e f g h i Laederich Alexandra Ibert Jacques Grove Music Online Oxford Music Online accessed 18 September 2010 subscription required a b c d e Langham Smith Richard 1992 Ibert Jacques The New Grove Dictionary of Opera Grove Music Online accessed 18 September 2010 subscription required Kuhn Laura ed Ibert Jacques Francois Antoine Student Encyclopedia of Music vol 2 Schirmer Reference New York published 1999 accessed 18 September 2010 subscription required a b Griffiths Paul and Richard Langham Smith Ibert Jacques Francois Antoine Marie The Oxford Companion to Music Oxford Music Online accessed 18 September 2010 subscription required Patsy Morita Entr acte for flute or violin amp harp or guitar from Le medecin de son honneur ALLMUSIC accessed 30 March 2014External links EditWorks by or about Jacques Ibert at Internet Archive The official website of Jacques Ibert Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jacques Ibert amp oldid 1144176359, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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