Jacques lbert (1890-1962) studied music at the Paris Conservatoirefrom 1910 to 1914. After winning the Grand Prix de Rome in 1919 he stayed at the Villa Medici for three years, and wrote Escales for orchestra and Histoires for piano, works which rapidly brought him worldwide fame. With his antidogmatic personality lbert was open to various forms of modernity, and tackled all styles with equal success, producing such major works as his Concerto pour...