Concertino Da Camera: pour saxophone-alto et onze instruments (French Edition) [French]

By Jacques Ibert

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 flute, the comic opera Angelique, the Quatuor a cordes, the Symphonie Concertante and the choreographic epic Le Chevalier Errant. As a figurehead in French music-director of the Academie de France in Rome from 1937-1960 with a break/or the war years, and administrator of the Paris Operafrom 1955-1956-lbertwas elected to the prestigious lnstitut de France in 1956.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 1542356512
• ISBN13: 9781542356510
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.1" x 8.5"