Émile Jaques-Dalcroze - Piano Music Vol. 3 (Xavier Parés; Patricia Siffert)

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Composer: Émile Jaques-Dalcroze

• Musiques pour faire danser, Book 1
• Trois esquisses genevoises sous forme de danses
• Musiques pour faire danser, Book 2
• Trois entrées dansantes
• Six danses bigarrées
• Trois rondeaux joyeux pour la danse
• Danse romande pour piano à quatre mains, Op. 68

Xavier Parés, piano

Patricia Siffert, piano

Date: 2019

Label: Toccata

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Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (6 July 1865 – 1 July 1950) was a Swiss composer and influential music educator. Studied under Bruckner, Fuchs and Delibes, he composed string quartets, violin concerti, piano works, and adapted songs for educational use. As a professor at the Geneva Conservatory, he reformed music teaching by integrating eurythmics, a method that uses bodily movement to teach musical rhythm. He applied eurythmics to children in 1905 and promoted it across Europe. He founded the first eurythmics school in Germany in 1910 and a central school in Geneva in 1914, leading it until his death.

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Patricia Siffert (born 1962 in Fribourg, Switzerland) is a Swiss pianist and educator. A prizewinner in several Swiss competitions, she studied with Céline Volet and later with Victor Rosenbaum in Boston, supported by the Swiss Musician Association. She was a finalist in the 1992 ISM 'Accompanist of the Year' competition and furthered her training at the Guildhall School in London and in masterclasses with renowned pianists. Siffert gives recitals as a chamber musician, accompanist and soloist internationally across North America, the Middle East and Europe. She teaches piano at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva.

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