biography
| name: |
Jaques-Dalcroze, Emile
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pronunciation:
[zhak dalkrohz]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1865–1950)
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| biography:
| Music teacher and composer, born in Vienna, Austria. He studied composition, and became professor of harmony at Geneva, where he originated eurhythmics, a method of expressing the rhythmical aspects of music by physical movement, which had great influence on the development of 20th-c dance. He was head of a school of eurhythmic instruction in Geneva (1914–50), where his pupils included Mary Wigman and Hanya Holm. |
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